This study estimates and decomposes recruitment elasticity, a key measure of employer market power, across job-matching stages using data from Japan's largest job-matching intermediary. On average, recruitment elasticity is negative but not statistically significantly different from zero....

In Southern Bangladesh, where rice dominates as the staple crop, the introduction of salt-tolerant potato and sweet potato varieties aims to enhance agricultural productivity and address food and nutrition insecurity in response to climate change and soil salinization. This study evaluates the...

Low-input production systems aim at mitigating agriculture's environmental impact with a lower level of chemical inputs. However, comparing the performance of low-input systems to conventional ones, particularly in terms of productivity and yield, is challenging due to selection bias. First, we...