Malaria and Anemia among Children in sub-Saharan Africa: the Effect of Mosquito Net Distribution

Bénédicte Apouey, Gabriel Picone (), Joshua Wilde, Joseph Coleman and Robyn Kibler
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Gabriel Picone: Department of Economics, University of South Florida

No 116, Working Papers from University of South Florida, Department of Economics

Abstract: This article explores the impact of antimalarial campaigns, and in particular of the scale up in the distribution of mosquito nets, on anemia for children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses individual-level data on more than 150,000 children and their families, combined with regionallevel data on malaria intensity before the antimalarial campaigns, for 16 countries between 2000 and 2014. Using a differences-in-differences estimation strategy, the paper tests whether the impact of the campaigns on anemia is larger in regions where the intensity of malaria was greater prior to the campaigns. The results indicate that the scale up has a negligible or small effect on moderate or severe anemia, whereas the other campaigns do not have any significant impact.

Keywords: Anemia; Malaria; Bed Nets; Africa; Child Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I15 I18 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2016-01
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