Productivity and Health: Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity

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This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares worker labor outcomes, such as labor supply and daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and treatment. Workers who are offered this program reallocate time from lower intensity activities in favor of higher intensity activities when they work.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11115

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
• Subject: labor productivity ; productivity measurement ; malaria ; field experiment

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Akogun, Oladele ; Dillon, Andrew ; Friedman, Jed ; Prasann, Ashesh ; Serneels, Pieter
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/174025
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