The original data used for this replications can be acquired from http://giovanniperi.ucdavis.edu/data-and-codes.html The Stata code replicates the results of "The Labour Market...

I replicate the findings of Blau and Kahn (2017). The original datasets of the article can be downloaded here: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20160995.

In his 2008 Journal of Health Economics paper, Jochen Hartwig claimed that Baumol’s Cost Disease (BCD) theory could explain observed increases in health care expenditures in...