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When should governments subsidize health? : the case of mass deworming
Ahuja, Amrita; Baird, Sarah; Hicks, Joan Hamory; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281235
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When should governments subsidize health? : the case of mass deworming
Ahuja, Amrita; Baird, Sarah; Hicks, Joan Hamory; … - In: 2014 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics …, (pp. 9-24). 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345969
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When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming
Ahuja, Amrita - 2015
United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the … short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …We discuss how evidence and theory can be combined to provide insight on the appropriate subsidy level for health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457518
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Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming
Hicks, Joan Hamory - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826644
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Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming
Hamory, Joan - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481464
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Neglected rural public health issue : the case of intestinal roundworms
Zhang, Linxiu; Cai, Yingping; Wang, Xiaobing; Ma, Xiaochen - In: China & world economy 21 (2013) 3, pp. 25-43
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009762290
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Replication redux : the reproducibility crisis and the case of deworming
Ozier, Owen - 2019
In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022345
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Replication redux : the reproducibility crisis and the case of deworming
Ozier, Owen - In: The World Bank research observer : WBRO 36 (2021) 1, pp. 101-130
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504858
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Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies
Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - 2015
audits on bed net distribution programs in three countries (Ghana, Kenya and Uganda) to investigate local agency problems and … eligible receive the subsidy as intended and leakage to the ineligible appears limited, even when the ineligible have a high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019515
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Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies
Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - 2015
audits on bed net distribution programs in three countries (Ghana, Kenya and Uganda) to investigate local agency problems and … eligible receive the subsidy as intended and leakage to the ineligible appears limited, even when the ineligible have a high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457343