), disputes these findings. The authors conclude that while treatment of children known to be infected increases weight by 0.75 kg … from studies of children known to be infected. The hypothesis of a common zero effect of multiple-dose MDA deworming on … effect on child weight is 0.148 kg (95% CI: 0.039, 0.258). The implied average effect of MDA on infected children in the full …

We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria … income for prime age men. This finding is robust to using very localized sources of geographic variation and to instrumenting … for pre-eradication prevalence with climate factors. We do not observe improvements in income for women, suggesting that …

short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …

This paper examines a natural experiment in which students at a large state university were randomly assigned roommates … students who drink frequently are particularly influenced by frequent-drinking roommates, substance-free housing programs could … possibly even grows over time. In contrast, students' college GPA is not influenced by roommates' high school grades, admission …