Atwood (2022b) reports a positive effect of the 1963 measles vaccine on long-run economic outcomes. The identifying variation is from pre-vaccine average reported measles incidence, but this plausibly represents reporting capacity or initial health levels, rather than actual disease incidence. I...

Atwood (2022) analyzes the effects of the 1963 U.S. measles vaccination on long-run labor market outcomes, using a generalized difference-in-differences approach. We reproduce the results of this paper and perform a battery of robustness checks. Overall, we confirm that the measles vaccination...

Atwood analyzes the effects of the 1963 U.S. measles vaccination on long-run labor market out-comes, using a generalized difference-in-differences approach. We reproduce the results of thispaper and perform a battery of robustness checks. Overall, we confirm that the measles vaccinationhad...