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Induced Innovation and Social Inequality: Evidence from Infant Medical Care.

ABSTRACT: We develop a model of induced innovation that applies to medical research. 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.

SUBMITTER: Cutler DM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4140440 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Induced Innovation and Social Inequality: Evidence from Infant Medical Care.

Cutler David M DM Meara Ellen E Richards-Shubik Seth S

The Journal of human resources 20120101 2

We develop a model of induced innovation that applies to medical research. 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 ...[more]

PMID: 25152540

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