Tomas Philipson

TL;DR: It is shown that mortality from infectious, respiratory, and digestive diseases, congenital, perinatal, and “ill-defined” conditions, mostly concentrated before age 20 and between ages 20 and 50, is responsible for most of the reduction in life expectancy inequality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived valuation formulas for infra-marginal changes in longevity and computed a "full" growth rate that incorporates the gains in health experienced by 96 countries for the period between 1960 and 2000.

TL;DR: The authors used direct evidence to evaluate whether asymmetric information is a barrier to trade in the largest market for private insurance in the world: life insurance, and found that sellers may know their costs of production better than consumers in this market, as in those for most other products.

TL;DR: The evidence provides support for the predictions concerning the response in output growth to aging and the contraction of output due to the aging of males, and argues that the direct effect of aging is to lower the demand for market care by incresing the supply of home production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that previous analysis of nonprofits has not separated profit-deviating preferences from the state-defined regulatory status of nonprofit production, and they argue that this separation is crucial in providing predictions about the underlying forces which allow the coexistence of nonprofit and for-profit production in an industry, as well as predictions about such fundamental matters as the share of nonprofit activity.