economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … dissertation, I model the impact on labor productivity of a change in disease susceptibility that results from intellectual … countries, and individuals consume innovated health goods to avoid the cost (labor time lost) of getting a disease. Southern …

fertility levels; (2) if achild health model provides a stronger indicator of fertility than child mortality alone;and (3) what …-year time span (1990-2005) is used. Resultsindicate that both the child mortality rate and the child health model are strong … indicatorsof fertility change and produce better results than population mortality or socioeconomicfactors alone. Use of health …

correlated with higher productivity. Specifically, I find that higher levels of the skills math and critical thinking partially … explain higher levels of regional productivity. Science, though not statistically significant, has a negative correlation …

Survey-based health research is in a boom phase following an increased amount of health spending in OECD countries and … the interest in ageing. A general characteristic of survey-based health research is its diversity. Different studies are … based on different health questions in different datasets; they use different statistical techniques; they differ in whether …

The main aim of this paper is to analyse sectoral contributions to dynamics productivity and output development in … labour productivity and capital productivity. The analysis has showed, that dynamics changes in growth rate of productivity … has clear link to business cycle. Dynamic changes of growth rate labour and capital productivity in the context of …

of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke using a simple cost of illness approach and for the …

. However, there are also significant health implications of such anti-competitive practices that seldom receive attention. This … paper hopes to draw attention to the potential public health issues that arise as a result of lack of competition in the … concentration on various health outcomes. Results: High retailer concentration may adversely affect affordability, accessibility …

) 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 …