Contreras, Juan; Patel, Elena; Tristao, Ignez - 2013
, accounting for quality and productivity. Production factors (capital, labor, energy, materials and drugs) contributed 70% (drugs … alone contributed 52 %), better health outcomes (higher quality) contributed 5 %, and better use of resources (productivity …) contributed 25 %. We find increasing returns to scale, a markup of between 15% and 36% and a much larger productivity dispersion …