This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and
productivity growth in the long run. From a long-run perspective, one can see that gains from …

Introduction: Today, antiretroviral therapy (ART) is effectively used as a lifelong therapy to
treat people living with HIV (PLWH) to suppress viral replication. Moreover, PLWH need an …

Caroline M. Hoxby is professor of economics at Harvard University and a research associate
of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ercises school choice? Who chooses which …

Medical technology is valuable if the benefits of medical advances exceed the costs. We
analyze technological change in five conditions to determine if this is so. In four of the …

This paper investigates the effects of market-wide changes in health insurance by examining
the single largest change in health insurance coverage in American history: the introduction …

The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor
worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose …

Health expenditures as a share of GDP in the United States have more than tripled over the
past half-century. A common conjecture is that this is a consequence of rising income. We …

This paper examines the implications of regulatory change for input mix and technology
choices of regulated industries. We study the increase in the relative price of labor faced by …

Abstract By 1993, over 70% of all Americans with health insurance were enrolled in some
form of managed care plan. The term managed care encompasses a diverse array of …

This document is the 2nd edition of the Net Social Expenditure paper published in 1999
(Adema, 1999). It contains an overview of net (after tax) public and private social …