Browse our collection of published research, journal articles, and working papers shaping policy and practice
KLPS has generated impactful research published in leading journals across diverse fields such as economics, public health, psychology, and more. Explore some of the key publications below to dive into the insights and findings from this groundbreaking study. Some of the core papers include:
- Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities (Econometrica, 2004): Provides essential background on the Primary School Deworming Project (PSDP), including the study setting and population, research design, the intervention, and information on intestinal worms. It also develops a statistical approach to estimating spatial spillovers that has been influential in subsequent research, including in recent work on the spillover effects of cash transfers.
- The Illusion of Sustainability (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007): Investigates the impacts of a cost-sharing program within the PSDP on the demand for deworming medication, and utilizes the study’s randomized design to estimate peer effects in take-up.
- Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016): Examines the 10-year follow-up effects of school-based deworming on individual education, health, and labor market outcomes, and examines the intervention’s cost effectiveness and fiscal implications, using the KLPS-2 data round.
- Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021): Analyzes long-term effects of child deworming on earnings, consumption, and urban migration, using the KLPS-3 and KLPS-4 data rounds, and finds larger labor market gains among males.
See the full list of publicationS below:
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Working Papers
| 5 | Midlife cognitive testing in Africa: validity of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol in the Kenya Life Panel Survey | 2025 | |
| 4 | Intergenerational Human Capital Impacts and Complementarities in Kenya | 2024 | |
| 3 | Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming: Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey | 2023 | |
| 2 | Socioeconomic Status Shapes Parental Beliefs about Child Academic Achievement: Evidence from India, the USA, Kenya, and Ghana | 2023 | |
| 1 | Tracking, Attrition and Data Quality in the Kenyan Life Panel Survey Round 1 (KLPS-1) | 2008 | |
