Early-life Malaria Exposure and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India | Zendy

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Early-life Malaria Exposure and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India

Author(s) -

David Cutler,

Winnie Fung,

Michael Kremer,

Monica Singhal,

Tom Vogl

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

american economic journal applied economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.996

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1945-7782

pISSN - 1945-7790

DOI - 10.1257/app.2.2.72

Subject(s) - malaria , educational attainment , per capita , demography , environmental health , medicine , socioeconomics , economics , economic growth , population , immunology , sociology

We examine the effects of exposure to malaria in early childhood on educational attainment and economic status in adulthood 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 household per capita consumption for prime age men, and the effects for men are larger than those for women in most specifications. We find no evidence of increased educational attainment for men and mixed evidence for women. (JEL I12, I18, I21, 015, 018)

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