Cutler, David M.; Singhal, Monica; Vogl, Tom; Fung, Winnie - Department of Economics, Harvard University - 2010
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...