Schistosomiasis is one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in the world. This study uses a large-scale deworming program targeted to schistosomiasis in China to identify the long-term impacts of early-life health on adult outcomes. We find that disease interventions led to increases in...

Chen et al. (2020) claim a positive causal effect of the send-down movement on rural education during China’s Cultural Revolution. Their result hinges on a highly sensitive key variable: education attained by the treatment cohorts, which is found to be treated with upward bias and...

This paper uses two large panel data sets in China to study the effects of a health shock on household income mobility from 1991 to 2016. We compare outcomes of households with a member who receives a health shock with comparable households that do not receive any health shocks. To do so, we...