Commentary: Assessing long-run deworming impacts on education and economic outcomes: a comment on Jullien, Sinclair and Garner (2016).

Assessing Long-Run Deworming Impacts on Education and Economic Outcomes: A Comment on Jullien, Sinclair and Garner (2016)

The impact of mass deworming programmes on schooling and economic development: an appraisal of long-term studies

Background Documents from advocacy and fund-raising organizations for child mass deworming programmes in low- and middle-income countries cite unpublished economic studies claiming long-term effects on health, schooling and economic development. Methods To summarize and appraise these studies, we searched for and included all long-term follow-up studies based on cluster-randomized trials incl...

Assessing the Health Impact of Trade: A Call for an Expanded Research Agenda; Comment on “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Is It Everything We Feared for Health?”

Labonté et al provide an insightful analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and its impact on a selection of important health determinants. Their work confirms concerns raised by previous analyses of leaked drafts and offers governments serious and timely reasons to carefully consider provisions of the agreement prior to moving forward with ratification. It also contributes more general...

Commentary: Deworming externalities and schooling impacts in Kenya: a comment on Aiken et al. (2015) and Davey et al. (2015).

Commentary: Deworming externalities and schooling impacts in Kenya: a comment on Aiken et al. (2015) and Davey et al. (2015) Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel* University of California, Center for Effective Global Action, Berkeley, California, USA, Department of Economics, Harvard University and NBER, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Department of Economics, University of Cal...

Response: Development economics–time to improve research methods