On NPR, IPA Researchers Reflect on Deworming Impacts

On NPR, IPA Researchers Reflect on Deworming Impacts

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NPR’s Goats and Soda podcast covers the long-term impact of Nobel Prize winner, Michael Kremer, and Edward Miguel’s study evaluating school-based deworming in Kenya. Kremer, Miguel, and co-authors Sarah Baird, Joan Harmony, and Michael Walker have released the 20-year results, which suggest, as Chris Udry says, “deworming is having these long-term effects on people's living standards.” However, as Seema Jayachandran notes, deworming did not raise women’s individual or household incomes.

August 31, 2020