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How Did the Public U.S. Drugmakers’ Sales, Expenses and Profits Change Over Time?
Understanding what drives pharmaceutical firms’ revenue growth is critical to developing evidence-based policies that curb drug costs without reducing the industry’s innovations.
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A Quick Guide to Climate Change Jargon – What Experts Mean By Mitigation, Carbon Neutral and 6 Other Key Terms
A guide to common terms used by climate scientists and climate journalists translated into everyday language.
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Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technologies: The U.S. Should do More to Speed Entry of Breakthrough Devices to Market
Equally pressing to FDA approval is the need to secure coverage from Medicare and Medicaid.
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Greater Spouse and Survivor Benefits Do Not Change Retirement Decisions
A working paper that analyzes worker and spouse Social Security incentives and investigates whether an additional dollar of benefit paid to a worker’s spouse or survivor is valued the same as an additional dollar of benefit paid to the worker.
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Leveraging Rapid Antigen Tests in School-Aged Children
To keep schools safe, students enrolled at LAUSD schools were required to show a negative COVID-19 test in the two weeks prior to the first day. Is this a good use of scarce resources?
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How COVID Changed Life in Los Angeles: Recent Findings from a Longitudinal Survey
Data collected from Los Angeles residents between November 2020 and April 2021 offers insights into views on crime, public transit and other topics compared with pre-pandemic views.
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It is Time for the U.S. to Create a National COVID-19 Vaccination Registry
Schaeffer Center expert Jakub Hlávka writes that the U.S. is hurting itself by not having a single vaccination registry, which would enable faster reopening of key sectors of the economy as well as of international travel.
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Gender and Financial Literacy at Older Ages in America
Using data from the Understanding America Study, a new study assesses the extent to which the gender gap in financial literacy exists in women and men in the crucial years before retirement.
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While Politicians Fight Over Civic Education, Most Parents and Adults Agree on the Subject
Between mid-April and the end of May 2021, USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research asked 1,510 K-12 parents from the nationally representative Understanding America Study (UAS) how important they feel it is for students to learn about civics education topics in school.
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Using Behavioral Science to Inform Risk Communications
Experts from USC use behavioral sciences to help international organizations with risk messaging.
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