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 …

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 …

: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and COVID-19. Although major epidemics and pandemics can take an enormous …

For decades, the debate on using DDT to control malaria has focused on the balance between immediate public health … after malaria had already been largely brought under control. Our finding shows that DDT exposure in early childhood is …

investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …

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

This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is … to malaria, with forest cover having no discernible effect on other diseases with a disease ecology different from that … of malaria. Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that the morbidity-related malaria-reducing local benefits of …

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