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

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 … malaria testing and treatment. The results indicate a significant and substantial intent to treat effect of the intervention …

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 …

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … substantial differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives …

the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not increase their working hours when hourly … wages increase, indeed, they are more likely to reduce their hours. The major inducement for working mothers to increase … at increasing working hours amongst British mothers of pre-school children may need to focus on the quality as well as …

. To do such we employ a simple test of employer learning on Ghana manufacturing data. We find no evidence of educational …