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Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children

Macours, Karen - 2016

children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes …. Households randomly exposed to female leaders with the largest package sustained higher investments in their children and … reported higher expectations and aspirations for the future of their children. These results suggest that program design …

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Family Ties, Inheritance Rights, and Successful Poverty Alleviation : Evidence from Ghana

Kutsoati, Edward - 2012

, Ghana enacted the Intestate Succession (PNDC) Law 111, 1985 and 1998 Children's Act 560 to force men to provide for their …Ghanaian custom views children as members of either their mother's or father's lineage (extended family), but not both …. Patrilineal custom charges a man's lineage with caring for his widow and children, while matrilineal custom places this burden on …

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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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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...

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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...

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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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The Growth Costs of Malaria

McCarthy, F. Desmond; Wolf, Holger C.; Wu, Yi - 2021

Malaria ranks among the foremost health issues facing tropical countries. In this paper, we explore the determinants of cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a classification rule analysis, we confirm the dominant role...

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