| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25541 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25541 |
| Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy | |
| Marcella Alsan; Vincenzo Atella; Jay Bhattacharya; Valentina Conti; Iván Mejía-Guevara; Grant Miller | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-02-11 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these gains are unclear. New substitutes for older, more expensive health technologies can produce convergence in population health outcomes, but may also be prone to “elite capture” leading to divergence. This paper studies the case of penicillin using detailed mortality statistics and exploiting its sharply-timed introduction in Italy after World War II. We find penicillin reduced both the mean and standard deviation of infectious diseases mortality, leading to substantial convergence across disparate regions of Italy. Our results do not appear to be confounded by competing risks or mortality patterns associated with World War II. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25541 |
| 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/583214 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marcella Alsan,Vincenzo Atella,Jay Bhattacharya,et al. Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy. 2019. |
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