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The quality-complementarity hypothesis : theory and evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice (contributor); Verhoogen, Eric (contributor) - 2009
, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794048
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Regulation and UK retailing productivity : evidence from micro data
Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. -- Productivity ; retail ; regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814316
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Using firm optimization to evaluate and estimate returns to scale
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor) - 2008
heterogeneity in productivity and factor prices symmetrically. The strength of the proposed estimator is illustrated by Monte Carlo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656928
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Pollution, infectious disease, and mortality : evidence from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2015
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of the pandemic with large cross-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347213
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The shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022
This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170449
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Economic vs. epidemiological approaches to measuring the human capital impacts of infectious disease elimination
Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alexander D.; … - 2022
A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
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Modern infectious diseases: macroeconomic impacts and policy responses
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271478
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Urban water disinfection and mortality decline in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Díaz Cayeros, Alberto; Miller, Grant; … - 2017
Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline in wealthy countries. However, water disinfection often does not produce equivalent benefits in developing countries today. We investigate this puzzle by analyzing an abrupt,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625391
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Economic activity and the spread of viral diseases : evidence from high frequency data
Adda, Jérôme - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a costly externality. This paper addresses three main issues: i) what are the unintended consequences of economic activity on the spread of infections? ii) how efficient are measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333557
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The long lasting influenza : the impact of fetal stress during the 1918 influenza pandemic on socioeconomic attainment and health in Sweden 1968 - 2012
Bengtsson, Tommy; Helgertz, Jonas - 2015
The observation in the 1940s, that children to mothers having rubella in the first part of the pregnancy experienced elevated health risks in later life led to a growing interest into whether fetal exposure to other – less severe - diseases could cause health problems as well. Epidemiological...
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