The Impacts of Hookworm Eradication in the American South. A replication study of Bleakley (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007)
Through designs akin to difference-in-differences, Bleakley (2007) produces evidence that the campaign to eradicate hookworm from the American South circa 1910 boosted school enrollment in childhood and income in adulthood. This comment works to replicate and reanalyze that study. Innovations includ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018-12-01
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| Series: | International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.18718/81781.7 |