MALARIA IN THE AMERICAS: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF CHILDHOOD EXPOSURE

Hoyt Bleakley

No 3185, Documentos CEDE from Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE

Abstract: This study considers the malaria-eradication campaigns in the United States (circa 1920), and in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico (circa 1955) in order to measure how much childhood exposure to malaria depresses labor productivity. The campaigns began because of advances in health technology, which mitigates concerns about reverse causality. Malarious areas saw large drops in the disease thereafter. Relative to non-malarious areas, cohorts born after eradication had higher income as adults than the preceding generation. These changes coincided with childhood exposure to the campaigns rather than with preexisting trends.

Keywords: Malaria; returns to health; eradication campaigns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H43 I12 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 61
Date: 2006-09-15
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