We study the impact of health shocks on domestic violence and illicit drug use. We argue that health is a form of human … differences in these women's health prior to the breakthrough. We show evidence that health improvements induced by the … breakthrough reduced domestic violence and illicit drug use. Our findings provide support for the idea that health improvements can …

The demand for health care and healthcare professionals is predicted to grow significantly over the next decade …. Securing an adequate health care workforce is of primary importance to ensure the health and wellbeing of the population in an … healthcare professionals and are also controversial. At issue is a balance between protecting the public health and removing …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. Our data set is large, containing information on …

Productivity spillovers are often cited as a reason for geographic specialization in production. A large literature in … show that a simple Roy model of patient treatment choice with productivity spillovers can generate these facts. Our model …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …

countries, where it is rapidly becoming the major public health problem facing such nations. As a consequence, there has been a …

these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …

through learning by doing. These models imply that increased specialization accelerates productivity growth by more fully … realizing dynamic economies of scale. In order to test the hypothesis that specialization increases productivity growth in LDCs … countries, the index of specialization is positively and significantly correlated with manufacturing productivity growth. We …