Re-Analysis

[*AoI = “Articles of Interest” is a feature of TRN where we report abstracts of recent research related to replication and research integrity.] ABSTRACT (taken from the article) “This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by producing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals.

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.