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 …

This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for …

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand … in the literature. The analysis emphasises the importance to analyse health related behaviour in a dynamic life cycle …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability …

We use administrative data from South Australia to study the impact of an unconditional cash transfer on child health … suggest that households spent the windfall income on electricity and private health insurance. There is no robust evidence …

Despite being widely used in health economics, dynamic models of health and healthcare typically assume that the … persistence is essential for the design and evaluation of health interventions because persistence determines the dynamics and … health outcomes. Using simple regression methods that do not place any restriction on the distribution of the heterogeneity …

Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses … manipulating incentives to participate in this health intervention allows us to study peer effects with organizational data and to … sickness absence during the flu season. Getting vaccinated was ineffective with no measurable health externalities from …

; productivity ; financial constraint ; export ; technology frontier ; BEEPS …