If health service delivery is poorly managed, then increases in inputs or ability may not translate into gains in … present results from a randomized field experiment in 80 primary health care centers (PHCs) in Nigeria to evaluate the effects … of a health care management consulting intervention. One set of PHCs received a detailed improvement plan and nine months …

If health service delivery is poorly managed, then increases in inputs or ability may not translate into gains in … present results from a randomized field experiment in 80 primary health care centers (PHCs) in Nigeria to evaluate the effects … of a health care management consulting intervention. One set of PHCs received a detailed improvement plan and nine months …

on labour productivity, using a macroeconomic methodology. The health of the labour force is a key determinant of labour … productivity, with poor health comes both physical and mental stresses that corrode the productive capacity of workers. Within this … potentially unlocking a new avenue of productivity policy framework, aimed at health improvement rather than more traditional …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care … utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self …-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that …

This paper studies the effects of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative on health insurance … coverage, access to care, health care use, and health outcomes. We exploit a difference-in-differences that relies on the … significant increases in health care use, although there is some evidence that DACA increased demand for mental health services …