This paper used Data Envelopment Analysis IDEA) to test the economic consequences of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) cotton dust standards by comparing the relative efficiency of firms affected by cotton dust in SIC 2200 and 2300 for the years before and after the...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is employed to construct an index of relative efficiencies by maximizing two proxies of high-tech output subject to minimizing five specific resources often associated with high-tech infrastructure. This approach ranks the 50 U.S. states from the most robustly...