This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in …

We assess evidence from randomized control trials (RCTs) on long-run economic productivity and living standards in poor … focus on cash transfer and child health programs, and show that a meaningful subset can realistically be evaluated for long …

transmission, deworming creates substantial externality health and school participation benefits among untreated children in the …

investment. This paper uses a randomized evaluation in Kenya to measure the health impacts of investments to improve source water … are much smaller than levels implied by health planners' typical valuations of child mortality, consistent with models in … which the demand for health is highly income elastic. Simulations suggest that, at current income levels, private property …

productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in …

even for risk neutral multinationals, as their profit function is non-linear due to price and productivity effects. For … of productivity shocks in an emerging market producing the intermediate inputs reduces the multinationals' expected … in each country to productivity shocks, channeling the average employment from the more to the less volatile location …