ECON 6280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Curative Care, Randomized Experiment, Procrastination
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Good nutrition in childhood -> more productive adults. Good nutrition in childhood is an investment, because: Long-term effect on health (barker hypothesis = body may not recover well from childhood deficiencies) Long-term effect through education: well-nourished children learn better. Children who were in utero during ramadan earn less as adults; children of children born during the. Chinese famine are smaller (long-term effect through generations) Program reduced school absenteeism by 25% in treated schools and was far cheaper than other ways of boosting school participation. + effects among untreated children and neighboring schools as well -> externalities large enough to justify fully subsidizing the treatment. Controlling for other factors, gdp is 30% less in malarial countries: malaria -> poverty. Countries which haven"t eradicated malaria may have other problems as well. Compare impact of malaria eradication across region, within, and even between family members.
