Living Large or Long: Preference Estimates from Completed-Life Stories

AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2025-03-14

Can Prevention Save Money?

JAMA Health Forum · 2025-04-03 · 5 citations

This JAMA Forum discusses some key considerations for addressing the question of whether and when prevention interventions are worth the cost.

Where Discovery Happens: Research Institutions and Fundamental Knowledge in the Life-Sciences

SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

Living Large or Long: Preference Estimates from Completed-Life Stories

AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2025-03-14

Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care

National Bureau of Economic Research · 2025-03-01 · 1 citations

We measure whether expert patients -those trained as physicians and nurses -have fewer emergency department visits and the reasons for these differences.Relative to similar patients physicians and nurses had 19.8% and 5.1% fewer ED visits, principally due to fewer avoidable visits.The differences in avoidable visits between physicians and other patients were largest for diagnoses commonly requiring prescriptions, which physicians often self-prescribed.Our results suggest that improving access to prescriptions for acute symptoms, more than improving patient education, may reduce avoidable health care.

Person and Place Effects in Scientific Discovery

National Bureau of Economic Research · 2025-07-01 · 2 citations

Fundamental knowledge in the life sciences has consequential implications for medicine and subsequent medical innovations.Using publications in leading life science journals to measure fundamental knowledge, we document large agglomerations in the institutions where it is discovered and a robust correlation between knowledge and subsequent citations in patents.We assess whether the institution where research is produced affects the output of scientists by using a scientist-mover design, which compares annual research output before and after a move for the same scientist.Between 50 60% of a scientist's research output is attributable to the institution where they work, and two thirds of this effect is driven by the presence of star researchers.The magnitude of these effects has not decreased in more recent time periods, in the wake of technologies that make cross-institution collaborations easier, nor is it larger for moves to larger agglomerations, nor concentrated in particular scientific fields.We discuss the implications of these findings for research allocations in science and scientists' leaving one institution for another.

The Corporatization Deal — Health Care, Investors, and the Profit Priority

New England Journal of Medicine · 2025-08-30 · 4 citations

Comprehensive measurement of biopharmaceutical R&D investment

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery · 2024-08-06 · 18 citations

Investing in Long-Term Health

JAMA Health Forum · 2024-02-08

This JAMA Forum discusses treatment and health care delivery, innovative use of risk analytics, and spending and coverage priorities in the US health insurance system.

Smart irrigation system

2024-12-17

The creation and application of a smart agriculture system utilising Internet of Things technologies is suggested by this work. By automatically watering plants based on real-time data about soil moisture content and weather factors, the device seeks to improve agricultural operations. It uses a variety of sensors, such as a DHT11 sensor and a soil moisture sensor, to measure temperature, humidity, and moisture content. Through the use of the Blynk IoT platform, these sensors are integrated with a Node MCU and relay to provide remote monitoring and control. The system has the ability to notify and message the user's mobile device in the event that the soil moisture levels are not appropriate. This work demonstrates that it is feasible to use IoT technology to optimise agricultural operations and reduce water usage.