Drug Diffusion Through Peer Networks: The Influence of Industry Payments

For helpful comments and suggestions, we thank Liran Einav, Ben Golub, Alan Griffith, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Angelo Mele, Kyle Myers, David Molitor, Seth Richards-Shubik, Jon Skinner, Doug Staiger, and seminar participants at Tel Aviv University, Dartmouth College, Stanford University, Imperial College London, ASHEcon, the ASSA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, the Fifth Annual Network Science and Economics Conference at Indiana University, the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum, and the NBER Summer Institute. The authors gratefully acknowledge research support by NIH grants PO1 AG19783 and UO1 AG046840. Dan Zeltzer acknowledges support from The Foerder Institute for Economic Research at Tel Aviv University. We thank Stephanie Tomlin and Weiping Zhou for help obtaining and managing the data. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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