Health and creativity: Evidence from corporate innovation
研究了员工健康如何影响企业创新产出，发现更健康的发明者能产出更有价值的专利，企业整体健康水平提升也促进创新，主要通过效率提升实现。
This study examines how workforce health affects corporate innovation output. At the inventor level, we show that healthier individual inventors, measured using facial recognition-based estimates of Body Mass Index, produce more valuable patents. At the firm level, we show that better workforce health is associated with improved innovation output, particularly in the presence of increased creative destruction and product market competition. Improved workforce health enhances corporate innovation primarily through efficiency gains. This study highlights the importance of workforce health as one of the key drivers of innovation and emphasizes the need for firms to prioritize employee health in their innovation strategies.