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Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India / David Cutler, Winnie Fung, Michael Kremer, Monica Singhal, Tom Vogl .
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cutler, David.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13539.
- NBER working paper series no. w13539
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Mosquitoes
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.
- Summary:
- We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. We find that the program led to modest increases in income for prime age men. This finding is robust to using very localized sources of geographic variation and to instrumenting for pre-eradication prevalence with climate factors. We do not observe improvements in income for women, suggesting that observed effects are likely driven by increased labor market productivity. We find no evidence of increased educational attainment for men, and mixed evidence for women.
- Notes:
- October 2007.
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