How to pronounce “deworm” in English

It is an animal dewormer, one of its side effects is that it decreases white blood cell, decreases the person's ability

So within a few months of receiving deworming treatment, kids who had gotten the drugs started going to school more.

So in the case of deworming, the area we worked in in western Kenya 25 years ago had worm infection rates of over 90%.

And a movement really emerged globally to provide support for deworming programs around the world.

So that's a setting where you might expect deworming to have a big impact, just because the health problem is so severe.

So eventually, a whole region ended up getting deworming, but there were some schools that were randomly chosen to get the deworming pills first.

And if we hadn't done the research 20 years ago on deworming, we wouldn't know about that return now.

or getting rid of intestinal parasites in children, deworming them, which isn't lifesaving because the parasites aren't going to kill them

So in the long run, the kids that received deworming drugs earn about 10% more in adulthood.

So over the last decade, hundreds of millions of kids a year have been receiving deworming drugs.

So we had another question come in that wants to go back to your analysis of the deworming example, one of your seminal pieces

Some of the great stories I've heard of-- groups like Evidence Action that is working on deworming has now gotten support from major governments,

If there were no worm infections, I wouldn't expect deworming to have much impact.

which kids in western kenya only learned later on so they were kind of useless for the kids the deworming pills that

10% isn't going to transform these folks' lives to be as rich as Americans, but given that it's only $1 to get deworming treatment, there's

So coming out of a study like that, people debate whether direct cash transfers versus programmatic assistance, deworming, for example, are more effective.

And I would say, certainly, there's plenty of high-return investments, like deworming, cash transfers, and others.

Early on, when we presented experimental results, and we had this deworming RCT when I was just starting out as an assistant professor at Berkeley, we were often told,

And so it tends to mean that they focus on things that do have measurable outputs, like anti-malaria nets or deworming