intervention also improved worker satisfaction and reduced stress levels, without affecting the quality of the loan officers …

care providers in Rwanda to study the effect of incentives for health care providers. In order to identify the effect of …. The incentives led to a 20% increase in productivity, and significant improvements in child health. We also find evidence …

Past research on the health workforce can be structured into three perspectives - "health workforce planning" (1960 … through 1970s); "the health worker as economic actor" (1980s through 1990s); and "the health worker as necessary resource …" (1990s through 2000s). During the first phase, shortages of health workers in developed countries triggered the development …

a range of health behaviors. Using longitudinal survey data that include pre- and post- reports from the same … individuals, we investigate the effects of the crisis on smoking, heavy drinking, dietary behaviors, sleep, and other health … behaviors and investigate changes in work hours, real income, wealth, and mental health as potential mediators. We also consider …

stress, our results are supportive of the idea that stressful events in pregnancy can damage the health of the fetus. However …

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …

of results is also consistent with a significant role for stress in generating long-term health consequences after job … rates. This paper examines the short- to medium-term changes in health, health care access, and health care utilization … longitudinal data on a wide variety of health-related measures and outcomes, we show that job loss results in worse self …

-run health follow-ups of the interaction between stress and social networks in a human population in which both stress and social …We find that veterans of the Union Army who faced greater wartime stress (as measured by higher battlefield mortality … statistically significantly less likely to be affected by wartime stress. Our results hold for overall mortality, mortality from …

A substantial literature has examined the impact of stress during early childhood on later-life health. This paper … contributes to that literature by examining the later-life health impact of stress during adolescence and early adulthood, using a … novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction during the Vietnam War. We estimate that a 10 percentage point (2 …