Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This paper builds on that literature by considering the influence that net nutrition has on a population’s labor productivity. Using data from Danish and Italian conscription...

"Recently, many state governments have legislated reductions in teachers' retirement benefits for new and future employees as a means of addressing the large unfunded liabilities of their pension plans. However, there is little existing capacity to predict how these unprecedented pension...