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Adolescence is the critical period or rather process in human development, where the individual leaves the dependency of childhood and enters a period in which dramatic changes occur, eventually resulting in what society identifies as adulthood. It is a complex developmental time involving sociological, psychological and physiological issues that starts with puberty and ends sometime in the third decade of life with central nervous system maturation (parents would want this period to be much quicker and shorter). The goal of adolescence is to develop an autonomous adult, who is capable of func

Teenagers --- Students --- School health services. --- Health services, School --- School health care --- Medical care --- School hygiene --- Student health --- Student hygiene --- Adolescent health --- Teen health --- Health and hygiene.

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This paper investigates whether a large-scale deworming intervention aimed at primary school pupils in western Kenya had long-term effects on young children in the region. The paper exploits positive externalities from the program to estimate the impact on younger children who did not receive treatment directly. Ten years after the intervention, large cognitive effects are found - comparable to between 0.5 and 0.8 years of schooling - for children who were less than one year old when their communities received mass deworming treatment. Because mass deworming was administered through schools, effects are estimated among children who were likely to have older siblings in schools receiving the treatment directly; in this subpopulation, effects are nearly twice as large.

Childhood Deworming --- Cognitive Development --- Disease Control & Prevention --- Education --- Educational Attainment --- Educational Sciences --- Governance --- Health Monitoring & Evaluation --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Mass Deworming Treatment --- Nutrition Shocks --- School Health --- Youth & Governance