Kiel Institute Fellow
Frank Lichtenberg, PhD
Kiel Institute Fellow
Frank Lichtenberg, PhD
Frank Lichtenberg is the Cain Brothers & Company Professor Emeritus of Healthcare Management at Columbia University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He collaborates with the Kiel Institute’s global health research team on biomedical innovation and longevity. According to IDEAS, the largest bibliographic database dedicated to economics and available freely on the Internet, he is in the top 1% of economists in the field of health economics. Two of his recent publications are: The impact of biomedical innovation on U.S. mortality, 1999-2019: evidence partly based on 286 million descriptors of 27 million PubMed articles, and The impact of biomedical innovation on cancer mortality in 37 countries, 2003-2017.
Main research interests
- Biomedical Innovation
- Longevity
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Further Affiliations
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
- CESifo research network
Frank Lichtenberg is the Cain Brothers & Company Professor Emeritus of Healthcare Management at Columbia University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He collaborates with the Kiel Institute’s global health research team on biomedical innovation and longevity. According to IDEAS, the largest bibliographic database dedicated to economics and available freely on the Internet, he is in the top 1% of economists in the field of health economics. Two of his recent publications are: The impact of biomedical innovation on U.S. mortality, 1999-2019: evidence partly based on 286 million descriptors of 27 million PubMed articles, and The impact of biomedical innovation on cancer mortality in 37 countries, 2003-2017.
