In recent years, the success of Japanese firms in the global market has prompted effortsto understand the sources of their competitive advantage. It has been suggested that onesuch source is the Japanese firms' management accounting systems, and a number ofarticles have claimed that important...

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides new evidence on the roles of socio-economic...