| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15316 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15316 |
| Induced Innovation and Social Inequality: Evidence from Infant Medical Care | |
| David M. Cutler; Ellen Meara; Seth Richards | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-09-04 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We develop a model of induced innovation where research effort is a function of the death rate, and thus the potential to reduce deaths in the population. We also consider potential social consequences that arise from this form of induced innovation based on differences in disease prevalence across population subgroups (i.e. race). Our model yields three empirical predictions. First, initial death rates and subsequent research effort should be positively correlated. Second, research effort should be associated with more rapid mortality declines. Third, as a byproduct of targeting the most common conditions in the population as a whole, induced innovation leads to growth in mortality disparities between minority and majority groups. Using information on infant deaths in the U.S. between 1983 and 1998, we find support for all three empirical predictions. We estimate that induced innovation predicts about 20 percent of declines in infant mortality over this period. At the same time, innovation that occurred in response to the most common causes of death favored the majority racial group in the U.S., whites. We estimate that induced innovation contributed about one third of the rise in the black-white infant mortality ratio during our period of study. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15316 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572991 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David M. Cutler,Ellen Meara,Seth Richards. Induced Innovation and Social Inequality: Evidence from Infant Medical Care. 2009. |
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