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This study exploits a randomized school health intervention that provided deworming treatment to Kenyan children and utilizes longitudinal data to estimate impacts on economic outcomes up to 20 years later. The effective respondent tracking rate was 84%. Individuals who received 2 to 3...
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school-based deworming. The program increased labor supply among men and education among women, with accompanying shifts in … hold manufacturing jobs, and miss one fewer meal per week. Women who were in treatment schools as girls are approximately …
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United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the …
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household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours …
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countries, absolutely and relative to a control group of single women without children. The cross-country differences in …
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While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear … whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in U.S. suffrage laws, we …
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effects on the adult outcomes of women, but not of men. Women with 20% higher rainfall (relative to normal local rainfall) in … eventual benefits for adult women's socioeconomic status are most strongly mediated by improved schooling attainment, which in …
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The Ku Klux Klan reached its heyday in the mid-1920s, claiming millions of members. In this paper, we analyze the 1920s Klan, those who joined it, and the social and political impact that it had. We utilize a wide range of newly discovered data sources including information from Klan membership...
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In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …
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. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … primarily the education of young women at risk of dropping out of school …
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