The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that malaria, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes, causes over … associated with malaria prevalence are perhaps the most important reason why some countries today are rich and others poor. This …

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan … in the early 20th century. We find that malaria exposure around birth leads to lower life-time educational attainment and …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We … show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic … growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our …

contrasting program effects by workers revealed health status. For workers who test positive for malaria, the treatment of illness … prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and occupational choice of workers in these … sectors by reducing physical capacity. This study identifies the impact of malaria on worker earnings, labor supply, and daily …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking – one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

differences in (short-term) GDP fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP … differences as well. More specifically, short-run GDP fluctuations pull less-educated male immigrants into certain U.S. states …, whereas GDP trends push less-educated male immigrants out of their countries of origin. Effects for less-educated women are …

This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empirical analyses and research indicates that these may be endogenous, state …