Worms: Identifying impacts on education and health in the presence of treatment externalities

Econometrica

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 159-217

  Miguel, Edward ^a,b   Kremer, Michael ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Education; Externalities; Health; Randomized evaluation; Worms

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; HEALTH RISKS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

RANDOMIZED EVALUATION; SCHOOL BASED MASS TREATMENT; TREATMENT EXTERNALITIES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 1242326002     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00481.x     Document Type: Article

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