BACKGROUND Since the site of human subjects research has public health, regulatory, ethical, economic, and social implications, we sought to determine the global distribution and migration of clinical research using an open-access trial registry. METHODS We obtained individual clinical trial data including location of trial sites, dates of operation, funding source (United States government, ...

This article tests the subset of public choice models for social security that have empirical implications. The data, collected from OECD countries for the years 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990, provide some support for each of the theories. Higher median voter age, more income heterogeneity, greater similarity in family size, and variables that make a public pension program more profitable are all ...

BACKGROUND Compared to OECD countries, Israel has a remarkably low percentage of GDP and of government expenditure spent on health, which are not reflected in worse national outcomes. Israel is also characterized by a relatively high share of GDP spent on security expenses and payment of public debt. OBJECTIVES To determine to what extent differences between Israel and the OECD countries in s...

Growing concern for climate change and rising scarcity of fossil fuels prompted governments to stimulate the development of renewables. This paper empirically tests whether feed‐in tariff (FIT) policies have been effective in the development of photovoltaic solar (PV), explicitly taking into account structure and consistency of FITs. Panel data estimations are employed for 30 OECD member ...

BACKGROUND Most of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) aim to ensure equitable access to health care. This is often interpreted as requiring that care be available on the basis of need and not willingness or ability to pay. We sought to examine equity in physician utilization in 21 OECD countries for the year 2000. METHODS Using data from n...

In this paper, we investigate the environmental regulation-productivity nexus for 18 OECD countries over years 1990–2015 and discuss its main policy challenges. Our findings support hypothesis that policies generate positive productivity returns through innovation as suggested by Porter Van Der Linde (1995). We find have a growth-promoting effect. Both market non-market based exert but differen...

the support of agricultural sector is adopted in various countries of the globe through different means and mostly with the aims such as increasing farmers incomes, protecting domestic products, ending dependence (on foreign goods), augmenting employment and reducing poverty. this paper tries to survey the support policies in agricultural sector in different countries as far as their components...

This paper examines industrialization in developing countries. It introduces the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database, which provides consistent annual data of employment, real and nominal value added by 12 sectors 51 economies for period 1990–2018. Regressions that control income population indicate a manufacturing renaissance several middle-income countries since 2000s. We observe ...