Disease and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American South
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- 1 February 2007
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 122 (1) , 73-117
- https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.121.1.73
Abstract
This study evaluates the economic consequences of the successful eradication of hookworm disease from the American South, which started circa 1910. TKeywords
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