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Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries

Chung, Yeimin - 2013

This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …

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Productivity and Health : Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity

Akogun, Oladele - 2017

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 …

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Quality and Quantity in Primary Care Mixed Payment Models : Evidence from Family Health Organizations in Ontario

Kantarevic, Jasmin - 2011

We study the impact of a mixed capitation model known as the Family Health Organization (FHO) on selected quality and quantity outcomes relative to an enhanced fee-for-service model known as the Family Health Group (FHG) among primary care physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of...

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Occupational Status and Health Transitions

Ribar, David - 2011

We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability...

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Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality

Adda, Jerome - 2011

We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data on morbidity and mortality. We show that health...

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The Causal Effect of Education on Health : What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio - 2011

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...

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Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer

Kooreman, Peter - 2011

Health economists have largely ignored complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as an area of research, although both clinical experiences and several empirical studies suggest cost-effectiveness of CAM. The objective of this paper is to explore the cost-effectiveness of CAM compared to...

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The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health

Conti, Gabriella - 2012

Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...

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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity Among Elementary School Children

Cawley, John - 2012

In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However, little is known about the effect of PE on child weight. This...

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The Effect of College Education on Health

Buckles, Kasey - 2012

We exploit exogenous variation in college completion induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates imply that increasing college completion rates from the level of the state with the lowest...

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