“University of Michigan economist Hoyt Bleakley has published several influential works which measure the long-term fallout of circumstances from hookworm eradication in the American South to river portages on the East Coast.” “According to Bleakley, it’s difficult to separate the effect of education from that of the cultures and institutions which tend to be adopted by educated people.”

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