Edward Miguel, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

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Web Name: Edward Miguel, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

WebSite: http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu

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This study exploits a randomized school health intervention that provided deworming treatment to Kenyan children and utilizes longitudinal data to estimate impacts on economic outcomes up to 20 years later. The effective respondent tracking rate was 84%. Individuals who received 2 to 3 additional years of childhood deworming experience an increase of 14% in consumption expenditure, 13% in hourly earnings, 9% in non-agricultural work hours, and are 9% more likely to live in urban areas. Most effects are concentrated among males and older individuals. Given deworming s low cost, a conservative annualized social internal rate of return estimate is 37%, a very high return by any standard. (NBER Working Paper #27611) Co-authors: Joan Hamory, Michael W. Walker, Michael Kremer, and Sarah J. Baird. Media coverage here on Vox, NPR, BerkeleyNews. Recently, social science has seen numerous episodes of influential research that was found to be invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny.Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: How to Do Open Scienceis the first book to summarize and synthesize new approaches to combat false positives and non-reproducible findings in social science research, document the underlying problems in research practices, and teach a new generation of students and scholars how to overcome them. Created with both experienced and novice researchers in mind,Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Researchserves as an indispensable resource for the production of high quality social science research. (Published byUniversity of California Pressin July 2019. WatchNBER Methods Lecture.) Co-authors:Garret ChristensenandJeremy Freese. Purchase viaU.C. PressorAmazon. For employment or media inquiries: Email: lslowe@berkeley.edu Phone: +1-510-642-4361 For all other inquiries: Email: cega@berkeley.edu Phone: +1-510-642-4361

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Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 2000

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