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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w21428 |
来源ID | Working Paper 21428 |
Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment | |
Sarah Baird; Joan Hamory Hicks; Michael Kremer; Edward Miguel | |
发表日期 | 2015-08-03 |
出版年 | 2015 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in school-based deworming. The program increased labor supply among men and education among women, with accompanying shifts in labor market specialization. Ten years after deworming treatment, men who were eligible as boys stay enrolled for more years of primary school, work 17% more hours each week, spend more time in non-agricultural self-employment, are more likely to hold manufacturing jobs, and miss one fewer meal per week. Women who were in treatment schools as girls are approximately one quarter more likely to have attended secondary school, halving the gender gap. They reallocate time from traditional agriculture into cash crops and non-agricultural self-employment. We estimate a conservative annualized financial internal rate of return to deworming of 32%, and show that mass deworming may generate more in future government revenue than it costs in subsidies. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Development and Growth ; Development |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21428 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
引用统计 | |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579103 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sarah Baird,Joan Hamory Hicks,Michael Kremer,et al. Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment. 2015. |
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