efforts to improve underlying conditions, have a mixed record of long-term effectiveness across public health research. The … coincidentally, the RSC's hookworm eradication program was not the only public health intervention that occurred in the rural South … during the Progressive Era. Rural public health centers spread throughout the American South during this period, partially …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On …

We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual …-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, this paper focuses on pre-migration employment dynamics … market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable … positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The size of the gains varies …