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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\u2010in\u2010differences approach that generates counterfactual outcomes from the nearest\u2010age siblings of children born with clubfoot, nested within a family\u2010level fixed effect. We find that clubfoot status (early treatment) results in an impairment (restoration) of \u22121.44 (0.91) in physical mobility, \u22121.17 (0.79) in mental health, \u22121.07 (0.64) in social inclusion, \u22120.48 (0.98) in an education index, \u22120.76 (0.42) in religious faith, and \u22121.32 (0.94) in an aggregate index of human flourishing (all ). We attribute the large, broad, and significant impacts from clubfoot treatment to (i) a highly effective medical intervention that is (ii) carried out in an impoverished setting with scarce existing support for children born with disabilities, which (iii) broadly generates spillover effects across key development outcomes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/hec.70040","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,19]],"date-time":"2025-09-19T03:59:33Z","timestamp":1758254373000},"page":"25-35","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Hope Walks: The Impact of Clubfoot Treatment on Human Flourishing in Ethiopia"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"35","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3619-9026","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bruce","family":"Wydick","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of San Francisco  San Francisco California USA"},{"name":"University of Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies and CEIDS  Notre Dame Indiana USA"},{"name":"Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California at Davis  Davis California USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gianna","family":"Camacho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Public Health Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands  Saipan Northern Mariana Islands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Patrizio","family":"Piraino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies and CEIDS  Notre Dame Indiana USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_10_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1198\/016214508000000841"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ejmg.2017.09.006"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/17453674.2017.1294416"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11999\u2010008\u20100683\u20108"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2022.990257"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0169-7218(11)02413-0"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S1573\u20104463(99)30041\u20109"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11999\u2010009\u20100734\u20109"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/tmi.12684"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1302\/0301\u2010620x.88b8.17482"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_12_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/wber\/lhm021"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_13_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3390\/healthcare10122580"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_14_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00264\u2010006\u20100284\u20107"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_15_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.2023185118"},{"issue":"10","key":"e_1_2_10_16_1","article-title":"Clubfoot in Children: An Overview","volume":"13","author":"Hegazy M. 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