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...
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تفاصيل
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2014/10/01
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ورقة عمل خاصة ببحوث السياسات
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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;Early childhood;older sibling;Public Services;years of schooling;early childhood intervention;
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نسخة رسمية من الوثيقة (قد تضم توقيعات، الخ)
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