Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences

Douglas Gollin () and Christian Zimmermann

No 2997, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that malaria, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes, causes over 300 million episodes of “acute illness” and more than one million deaths annually. Most of the deaths occur in poor countries of the tropics, and especially sub-Saharan Africa. Some researchers have suggested that ecological differences associated with malaria prevalence are perhaps the most important reason why some countries today are rich and others poor. This paper explores the question in an explicit dynamic general equilibrium framework, using a calibrated model that incorporates epidemiological features into a standard general equilibrium framework.

Keywords: malaria; epidemiology; GDP; disease prevention; sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E13 E21 I1 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2007-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-dev, nep-dge, nep-hea and nep-mac
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Working Paper: Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences (2010)
Working Paper: Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences (2008)
Working Paper: Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences (2008)
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