Worms at work: Long-run impacts of a child health investment
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- Sarah Baird & Joan Hamory Hicks & Michael Kremer & Edward Miguel, 2016. "Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 131(4), pages 1637-1680.
- Sarah Baird & Joan Hamory Hicks & Michael Kremer & Edward Miguel, 2015. "Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment," NBER Working Papers 21428, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Baird, Sarah & Hamory Hicks, Joan & Kremer, Michael & Miguel, Edward, 2015. "Worms at work: Long-run impacts of a child health investment," Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt2rf591xc, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley.
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JEL classification:
- I00 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General - - - General
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2015-10-25 (Development)
- NEP-HEA-2015-10-25 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2015-10-25 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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