Bleakley, Hoyt; Lange, Fabian - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 91 (2009) 1, pp. 52-65
This study considers the eradication of hookworm disease from the American South (circa 1910) as a test of the quantity-quality (Q-Q) framework of fertility. Eradication was principally a shock to the price of quality because of three factors: hookworm (i) depresses the return to human capital...