Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from
developed country data. However, given the…
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To help preserve continuity of health insurance coverage during the recent recession, the American Recovery and Reinvestment…
The transportation of hazardous materials is vital to the U.S. economy and inherently dangerous. In the decade since the terrorist attacks…
Politicians, particularly Republican candidates, among them Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, like to emphasize the importance of individual…
The Affordable Care Act mandates changes in payment policies for Medicare postacute care services intended to contain spending in the long…
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also…
Book abstract: Summarizes the literature, and considers the issue of paying for research and development. It reviews research and…
All the recent debate about the future of Medicare is missing a fundamental truth: the odds of any major changes to Medicare are next to…
Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation brings fresh insight and analytic rigor to what has become one of the…
One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also…