Improved land-use efficiency in agricultural production is crucial to meet increasing demand for agricultural commodities using the finite area of arable land worldwide. By applying a spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier methodology to county-level data spanning from 1980 to 2011, we...

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...

Youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) is a heterogeneous group in which many run the risk of long-term exclusion from the labor market and from society. Numerous national and international policy initiatives targeting NEETs have therefore been launched, often involving the...