ArticleHealth economics2026
Hope Walks: The Impact of Clubfoot Treatment on Human Flourishing in Ethiopia.
Article in Health economics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Newborn screening for external congenital anomalies at three public hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
- Hope Walks: The Impact of Clubfoot Treatment on Human Flourishing in Ethiopia.Health economics · 2026Article
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Abstract
Children born with severe congenital conditions in low-income countries rank among the most disadvantaged among the global ultra-poor. We study the impact of clubfoot and its treatment across multiple dimensions of human flourishing on data collected from 564 children in Ethiopia. Working with Hope Walks, an organization that funds clubfoot interventions in numerous countries, we use a quasi difference-in-differences approach that generates counterfactual outcomes from the nearest-age siblings of children born with clubfoot, nested within a family-level fixed effect. We find that clubfoot status (early treatment) results in an impairment (restoration) of -1.44
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