Various household survey indicators of adult nutrition and health status are analyzed as determinants of individual … wages. However, survey indicators of health status may be heterogeneous, or a combination of health human capital formed by … variation in measured health status are included in wage functions to assess empirically whether the productivity of both …

Various household survey indicators of adult nutrition and health status are analyzed as determinants of individual … wages. However, survey indicators of health status may be heterogeneous, or a combination of health human capital formed by … variation in measured health status are included in wage functions to assess empirically whether the productivity of both …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

morbidity measured in a household survey? Second, how is the impact of morbidity on productivity inferred, if earning is partly … instrumental variable estimation approach is used where local food prices and health services instrument for disability days that … reduce wages by at least 10 percent and hours by 3 of more percent. …

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and … reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

between human capital and wages are described. Three types of estimation problem are discussed: (1) bias due to omitted …A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and … reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …