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Title: Chronic Disease Burden and the Interaction of Education, Fertility, and Growth

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: This study considers the eradication of hookworm disease fromthe American South (circa 1910) as a test of the quantity-quality (Q-Q)framework of fertility. Eradication was principally a shock to the price of quality because of three factors: hookworm (i) depresses the return to human capital investment, (ii) had a very low case-fatality rate, and (iii)had negligible prevalence among adults. Consistent with the Q-Q model, we find a significant decline in fertility associated with eradication.

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Authors: Bleakley, Hoyt; Lange, Fabian

Periodical (Full): The review of economics and statistics

Issue: 1

Volume: 91

Pages: 52-65

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Fertility and Mortality, Other

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