GiveWell

About 10 years ago, the economist Hoyt Bleakley published two important papers on the impact of health on wealth—more precisely, on the long-term economic impacts of large-scale disease eradication campaigns. In the Quarterly Journal of Economics, “ Disease and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American South” found that a hookworm eradication campaign in the American South in the 1910s was followed by a substantial gain in adult earnings.