This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct … daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper … investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and non … form of a reduced variability of health status. Using the standard deviation of life expectancy in 24 OECD countries … between 1960 and 2005, a 10 percent increase of health care expenditure is associated with a decrease of an estimated 0 …