This paper investigates whether a large-scale deworming intervention aimed at primary school pupils in western Kenya had long-term effects on young children in the region. The paper exploits positive externalities from the program to estimate the impact on younger children who did not receive treatment directly. Ten years after the intervention, large cognitive effects are found -- comparable to between 0.5 and 0.8 years of schooling -- for children...
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2014/10/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS7052
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2014/10/01
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Exploiting externalities to estimate the long-term effects of early childhood deworming
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deworming
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