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

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Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: This study considers the eradication of hookworm disease from the 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 significantdecline in fertility associated with eradication.

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Authors: Lange, Fabian; Bleakley, Hoyt

Publisher: Yale University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Other

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