Demands for ramping up health expenditures are at an all-time high. Countries' needs for additional health resources … also explores some of the key drivers of efficiency and finds that lower income inequality, less corruption, and health …

We study the costs of hospitalizations on patients' earnings and labor supply, using the universe of hospital … labor market consequences of a given diagnosis and propose a new measure of hospital quality, the "Adjusted Earning Losses …" (AEL). We find a 4 percentage points difference in lost earnings between the best and worst large Danish hospitals, all …

We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model … provides an excellent fit for the mortality and survival curves for both primate and human populations since 1816. The model … mortality gradients across socio-economic statuses, (ii) non-monotonic dynamic effects of in-utero shocks, (iii) persistent or …

efficiency of health expenditures and service delivery in comparison to the OECD and other new EU member states and suggests … inputs into health outcomes. Efficiency may be enhanced by containing the cost of drugs and reducing reliance on hospital …

We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income … sustainability. A dynamic general equilibrium model is calibrated to reflect the structural characteristics of vulnerable low-income …

national income, the private capital stock, real wages for the poor, and formal sector employment surpass their counterparts in …We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different …