Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic … variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different … that increases in health (and height) coincide with economic development. …

paper builds on that literature by considering the influence that net nutrition has on a population’s labor productivity … nutrition in people’s first 20 years has had a significant and positive effect on labor productivity over the twentieth century …Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This …

members of three companies. Aside from gathering baseline data on products used, health conditions addressed by these products … product distributor, factors such as control over one's health, creation of a support community through shared efforts, and … inform network marketers' beliefs and desires for autonomy in the spheres of finance, personal life, and health. …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

The first chapter of this dissertation integrates the existing literatures on displacement and health by examining the … modeled to capture spousal reactions to these shocks. Multiple indicators of health from the Survey of Income and Program … composition of the labor force impact productivity by exploiting measures of human capital, or skill. The BLS has previously …

not delivered productivity gains and have had a negative effect on managers' well-being. The effects of change were … perceived differently by directors and other managers. Despite continuous cost reduction, productivity in the UK remains below … increased productivity in the UK. …

of air pollution on health and mortality. There is also some evidence that air ... …