In 1961 Cuba bet everything on health and education. Did it work? New paper with Rok Spruk follows the next 60 years and finds the payoff was real and lasting: fewer infant deaths, longer lives, and human capital that compounded for generations.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.29785
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We estimate long-run effects of Cuba's 1961 National Health Service and contemporaneous National Literacy Campaign using synthetic-control methods on newly assembled series for 21 former European colo...
