Twenty Year Economic Impacts

of Deworming: Some
observations
Ana Granda
Jairo Gudiño
Impact Evaluation, Del Rosario University
 What if you estimate the effect of deworming on
1. nutritional/health variables first, and next
causality on earnings & consumption outcomes?
At least in the first years of the program. It gives more credibility.

Shouldn’t be a better policy affect directly the

result you are aiming for instead of waiting for non-
2. linear effects with super-complicated ways to
estimate impact?
Reality is non-linear and econometric tools are not designed to deal
exactly with positive feedback loops. Alternatives: UBIs, job training
programs, etc.
 In order to get a clearer picture of effects, the authors could use
Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) as exploratory tolos to
3. understand which variables they should focus on. This is widely
used in epidemiology and medical studies.