Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment*

Baird, Sarah; Hicks, Joan; Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward

doi:10.1093/qje/qjw022

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“…These studies include work by Bleakley (2007) who finds that a deworming campaign in the American South resulted in improvements in literacy, educational attainment, and adult income. This is consistent with the work by Miguel and Kremer (2004), showing the positive benefits of a deworming campaign in Kenya in terms of school attendance and long-term adult employment and earnings (Baird et al 2011). …”

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Rising Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility: The Role of Public Investments in Human Capital

Aizer¹

2014

CESifo Economic Studies

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One consequence of the rise in inequality witnessed over the past 40 years is its potentially negative impact on intergenerational mobility if parents at the bottom of the income distribution invest significantly less in their children's human capital. I consider whether public investments in children can potentially offset the inequality of private investments. Specifically, examining changes in public spending in 25 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries over the period 2000–2009, I find that increases in spending on health are most strongly associated with reductions in the importance of family background and declines in inequality in the production of child human capital as measured by the Program for International Student Assessment test scores among 15-year-olds. Public spending on family support, housing, and education are also moderately related. In contrast, increased spending on the elderly is associated with increases in the importance of parental background and inequality of child test scores. These results suggest that public investments in child human capital have the potential to offset the potentially negative impact of increasing income inequality on intergenerational mobility and inequality of the next generation. Further research firmly establishing a causal relationship is needed.

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Rising Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility: The Role of Public Investments in Human Capital

Aizer¹

2014

CESifo Economic Studies

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“…Therefore, at wave 2, 5,702 students completed the school or home survey, and the “effective survey rate” reached 90.8% 4 . In the analyses, the sample was weighted to account for the different likelihood of follow-up through the school and home surveys (Baird et al 2014; Baird, Hamory, and Miguel 2008). …”

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School Socioeconomic Composition and Adolescent Sexual Initiation in Malawi

Kim

2015

Studies in Family Planning

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While numerous studies have documented the determinants of sexual behavior among adolescents in less developed countries, relatively little is known about the influence of social contexts such as school and neighborhood. Using two waves of data from a school-based longitudinal survey conducted in Malawi from 2011 to 2013, this study advances our understanding of the relationship between school-level socioeconomic contexts and adolescents’ sexual activity. The results from two-level multinomial logistic regression models suggest that high socioeconomic composition of the student body in school decreases the odds of initiating sexual activity, independently of other important features of schools as well as individual-level characteristics. This study also finds that the association between school socioeconomic composition and sexual activity is statistically significant only among males, but not females, suggesting that school’s socioeconomic contexts may be more relevant to male adolescents’ initiation of sexual activity.

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“…Vocational training lottery winners are as likely as lottery losers to complete formal 4 Only a few randomized trials in developing countries have had long-term follow-ups more than 10 years after random assignment. The studies with long-term follow-ups of randomized experiments are Maluccio et al (2009), which examines the impact of childhood nutrition program in Guatemala 25 years later; Kugler and Rojas (2017), which follows CCT beneficiaries in Mexico up to 17 years later; Bettinger et al (2018), which explores the impact of secondary school vouchers for disadvantaged youth on labor market and other outcomes up to 17 years after the lottery; Barrera-Osorio, Linden and Saavedra (forthcoming), which examines long-term educational impacts of alternative CCT payment structures in Colombia, and Baird et al (2016), which evaluates the de-worming experiment in Kenya 10 years after random assignment. 5 secondary school after program participation.…”

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Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia

Kugler¹,

Podgursky²,

Saavedra³

et al. 2020

J. Human Resources

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We use administrative data and a randomization design to examine the long-term educational impacts of a large-scale vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Colombia on trainees and their relatives. Up to eleven years after randomization, trainees were more likely to enroll in formal tertiary education, and their relatives more likely to complete secondary schooling. Various empirical tests suggest that, for females, vocational training helped relax credit constraints stemming from the direct costs of tertiary education. For males, the evidence suggests that additional tertiary education investments arise from the program improving fieldspecific knowledge and/or information about field-specific returns to tertiary education. Focusing only on labor-market outcomes and not accounting for these long-term tertiary education impacts on participants substantially understates the social desirability of the Colombian vocational training program. By contrast, including tertiary education impacts on participants increases the program's internal rate of return for women from 22.2% to 23.5% and for men from 10.2% to 20.5%.

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Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment*

Cited by 251 publications

References 44 publications

Rising Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility: The Role of Public Investments in Human Capital

Rising Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility: The Role of Public Investments in Human Capital

School Socioeconomic Composition and Adolescent Sexual Initiation in Malawi

Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia

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