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Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Deworming
June 3, 2015Poverty and Applied Microeconomics Seminar Series

Owen Ozier (Development Research Group, World Bank) will present the results of recent research.

Speaker: Owen Ozier is an economist in the Development Research Group, Human Development and Public Services Team. He received his M.Eng. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2010. His current research projects focus on health, education, and economic decisions in Kenya. More »

Abstract: This paper investigates whether a school-based deworming intervention in Kenya had long-term effects on young children in the region. It exploits positive externalities from the program to estimate impacts on younger children who were not directly treated. Ten years after the intervention, it finds large cognitive effects—comparable to between 0.5 and 0.8 years of schooling—for children who were less than one year old when their communities received mass deworming treatment. Because treatment was administered through schools, it also estimates effects among children whose older siblings received the treatment directly; in this subpopulation, effects are nearly twice as large.

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Last Updated: May 27, 2015

The Poverty and Applied Micro Seminar Series is a weekly series hosted by the World Bank's research department. The series invites leading researchers in applied microeconomics from the fields of poverty, human development and public service delivery, agriculture and rural development, political economy, behavioral economics, private sector development, and a range of other fields to present the results of their most recent research in a seminar format. The full list of seminars can be viewed here.

Event Details
  • Date: June 3, 2015
  • Location: World Bank Headquarters, MC3-570
  • Time: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
  • CONTACT: Anna Bonfield
  • abonfield@worldbank.org




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