Meta-Analysis and Public Policy: Reconciling the Evidence on Deworming

We are grateful to the Campbell Collaboration deworming team, especially Vivian Welch, for generously sharing data and information on their work. We thank Harold Alderman, Shally Awasthi, Don Bundy, Jaime Carmona-Fonseca, Serene Joseph, Chengfang Liu, Scott Rozelle, and Walter Willett for help interpreting their studies, searching for original data, or supplying us with additional results. We thank Egor Abramov, Arthur Baker, Alexandre Simoes Gomes, Yue (Luna) Huang, Kamran Jamil, Spencer Ma, Cole Scanlon, Wen Wang, and Kevin Xie for research assistance. We thank Amrita Ahuja, Harold Alderman, Ben Arnold, Sarah Baird, Matthew Basilico, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Jack Colford, Peter Hotez, Rachael Meager, Antonio Montresor, Owen Ozier, Caio Piza, Dina Pomeranz, Gil Shapira, and many seminar and conference participants, for helpful comments. We thank the Dioraphte Foundation for financial support. All errors are our own. Ricardo Maertens currently works at Amazon. He contributed to this research paper prior to joining Amazon. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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