Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Deworming

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Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Year: 2018
Volume: 10
Issue: 3
Pages: 235-62

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Abstract

I investigate whether a school-based deworming intervention in Kenya had long-term effects on young children. I exploit positive externalities from the program to estimate impacts on younger children who were not directly treated. Ten years after the intervention, I find large cognitive effects—comparable to between 0.5 and 0.8 years of schooling—for children who were less than one year old when their communities received school-based mass deworming treatment. I find no effect on child height or stunting. I also estimate effects among children whose older siblings received treatment directly; in this subpopulation, cognition effects are nearly twice as large.

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RePEc Handle
repec:aea:aejapp:v:10:y:2018:i:3:p:235-62
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
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2026-01-26