Michael Grossman's seminal publication on the demand for health and health production (Grossman 1972) has spawned a … substantial body of research focusing on the production of infant health. This article provides a systematic review of the … published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million …, prior child cognition and health, and child investments. We use income and local prices to control for the endogeneity of … investments. We find that cognition is sensitive to investments throughout the age range we consider, while health is mainly …

the firm's investment decision to identify the embodied and disembodied components of productivity growth. With a Cobb …

Capital income tax policy affects investment by the parent and affiliates of multinational corporations (MNCs). In a … model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is …

when institutional quality is instrumented. Finally, the experience of Hong Kong, which has had a flat investment ratio … since the 1960s, is consistent with the idea that making the transition from a low-investment economy to a high-investment …

building ideas first developed in Olley and Pakes (1996). Olley and Pakes show how to use investment to control for correlation … between input levels and the unobserved firm-specific productivity process. We prove that like investment, intermediate inputs … problem. We highlight three potential advantages to using an intermediate inputs approach relative to investment. Our results …

are measured as being no less efficient than an average manufacturing firm, but Health Maintenance Organizations are less …