Disease and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American South.

By Hoyt Bleakley. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007

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Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes (2011, background): “Health conditions, and in particular the prevention or eradication of infectious diseases, have been shown to have a large impact on children' educational outcomes (Kremer and Miguel, 2004; Bleakley, 2007).”
Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital (2017, background): “…evidence on this topic finds that increasing health increases schooling investment, particularly in the developing world (Miguel and Kremer 2004; Bleakley 2007; Jayachandran and LlerasMuney 2009). impacts of rainfall shocks on human capital 551 are more likely to serve lunches during droughts…”
Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South (2012, neutral): “Bleakley (2007) looks at hookworm eradication in the U.S. South for evidence on the efficacy of disease eradication programs.”
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Consumption: Learning from High-Frequency Transaction Data (2020, background): “Specifically, large-scale viral diseases have a significant long-term impact on GDP and per-capita income (Bloom and Mahal, 1997; Sachs and Malaney, 2002), human capital accumulation (Young, 2005; Almond, 2006; Bleakley, 2007), house prices, and urban landscape (Ambrus, Field, and Gonzalez, 2020).”
Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health (2019, background): “, 2012); IQ, educational performance and attainment (Aizer and Cunha, 2012; Bharadwaj et al., 2013; Bleakley, 2007); and labor market outcomes (Almond, 2006; Bhalotra and Venkataramani, 2012; Bleakley, 2010; Gould et al.”
Field experiments in labor economics (2010, background): “Estimates from natural experiments and field experiments find that health interventions have a positive and significant effect on school attendance (Bleakley 2007, Bobonis et al. 2004, Miguel and Kremer 2004).”
Global numbers of infection and disease burden of soil transmitted helminth infections in 2010 (2014, result): “For example, recent studies in Africa, as well as reanalysis of the extensive Rockefeller Foundation supported efforts to control hookworm in the southern United States at the beginning of the 20th century, have shown remarkable long-run effects on productivity and employment and wages of treating c”
Public Health Investments and the Infant Mortality Gap: Evidence from Federal Sanitation Interventions on U.S. Indian Reservations (2006, background): “Bleakley (2002) documents the positive impact of the eradication of hookworm in the American South on schooling and income.”
When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South (2012, neutral): “4Additional important factors include malaria eradication (Bleakley, 2007) and the introduction of air conditioning (Arsenault, 1984).”
Fetal Origins and Parental Responses (2013, background): “Tropical disease has also been used by a number of studies to demonstrate long-term effects of health impairments early in life (e.g., Bleakley2007,Barreca 2010).”