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Productivity and Health: Physical Activity as a Measure of Effort

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dc.contributor.authorAkogun, Oladele
dc.contributor.authorDillon, Andres
dc.contributor.authorFriedman, Jed
dc.contributor.authorPrasann, Ashesh
dc.contributor.authorSerneels, Pieter
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-09T16:24:15Z
dc.date.available2024-01-09T16:24:15Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-11
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the relationship between physical activity and individual productivity among agricultural workers paid on a piece-rate basis. In the context studied, physical activity has a clear correspondence with worker effort. Agricultural workers’ physical activity is directly observed from accelerometer data and is robustly associated with their daily productivity. In addition the impact of a health intervention, which provides malaria testing and treatment, on physical activity and productivity, indicates that the increased daily productivity of workers who are offered this program is explained by worker effort reallocation from low-intensity to high-intensity work within a fixed time period. This demonstrates, in settings when individual productivity is observed, that physical activity measures can help disentangle productivity effects due to effort. When productivity is unobserved, physical activity measures may proxy for individual productivity in physically demanding tasks. The challenges and limitations of physical activity measurement using accelerometers is discussed including their potential use for alternative contexts and the importance of field and data analysis protocols.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/40859
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X online
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 print
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40859
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectLABOR PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectPHYSICAL ACTIVITY
dc.subjectMALARIA
dc.subjectFIELD EXPERIMENT
dc.subjectACCELEROMETER DATA USE
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL
dc.titleProductivity and Healthen
dc.title.subtitlePhysical Activity as a Measure of Efforten
dc.typeJournal article
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okr.crossref.titleProductivity and Health: Physical Activity as a Measure of Effort
okr.date.disclosure2020-06-11
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhaa011
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40859
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pagenumber652–680
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.topicAgriculture::Agricultural Knowledge & Information Systems
okr.topicAgriculture::Agricultural Research
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Malaria
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health and Poverty
okr.volume35(3)
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