average regional elevation. Results indicate that for firms with female owners, technology adoption improves value-added per …Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … significant positive impacts on productivity as measured by value-added per worker, especially for firms with female principal …

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle … income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese …

-industrial times (i.e., prior to the advent of airborne transportation technology) has had a persistent negative impact on the extent …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …

on labor market outcomes and hospitalization, and the first to use register data covering the full Dutch population to …

effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these …This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and … between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered … the canonical production function framework is challenging, however, because the assignment of tasks to labor and capital …

significant negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes even after controlling for a rich set of demographic …