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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Berry, James - 2015
and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only … offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked … money box. After nine months, both programs had significant impacts on savings behavior relative to the control group …
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Mosquitoes : The Long-Term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
Cutler, David M. - 2010
We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income 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 income for prime age men. This finding is robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759759
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Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment
Cohen, Jessica - 2008
It is often argued that cost-sharing -- charging a subsidized, positive price -- or a health product is necessary to avoid wasting resources on those who will not use or do not need the product. We explore this argument through a field experiment in Kenya, in which we randomized the price at...
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Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa : An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment
Teklehaimanot, Awash - 2008
This paper estimates the number of people at risk of contracting malaria in Africa using GIS methods and the disease's epidemiologic characteristics. It then estimates yearly costs of covering the population at risk with the package of interventions (differing by level of malaria endemicity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773181
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Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Cohen, Jessica - 2012
Both under- and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public bads. But efforts to decrease one run the risk of increasing the other. Using rich experimental data on household treatment-seeking behavior in Kenya, we study the implications of this tradeoff for subsidizing life-saving...
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Estimating the Impact of Means-Tested Subsidies Under Treatment Externalities with Application to Anti-Malarial Bednets
Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2013
Regular use of effective health-products such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITN) by a household benefits its neighbors by (a) reducing chances of infection and (b) raising awareness about product-effectiveness, thereby increasing product-use. Due to their potential social benefits and...
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Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States
Barreca, Alan I. - 2013
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) caused a population shift in the United States in the 1930s. Evaluating the effects of the AAA on the incidence of malaria can therefore offer important lessons regarding the broader consequences of demographic changes. Using a quasi-first difference model...
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Malaria and Early African Development : Evidence from the Sickle Cell Trait
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2013
We examine the effect of malaria on economic development in Africa over the very long run. Using data on the prevalence of the mutation that causes sickle cell disease we measure the impact of malaria on mortality in Africa prior to the period in which formal data were collected. Our estimate is...
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Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa
McMillan, Margaret - 2013
This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078849
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Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries : The Zambian Malaria Initiative
Ashraf, Nava - 2010
Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-Malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass distribution of insecticide...
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