spraying may have made the problem of malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an …

prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and choice of job tasks among workers 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 …

Using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control program, this paper studies the …

Malaria continues to be a prominent global public health challenge, in part because of the slow population adoption of …. Program effects were identified through a randomized cluster trial comprising 120 villages from two purposively chosen malaria … effective in shifting care seeking and increasing preventive behavior, and thus may be used to strengthen the national malaria …

This paper investigates the effects of intermittent screening and treatment of malaria on the health and education of … school children in an area of low-to-moderate malaria transmission. A cluster randomized trial was implemented with 5 … workers used malaria rapid diagnostic tests to screen the children. Children who tested positive were treated with a six …

The Millennium Development Goal of achieving near-zero malaria deaths by 2015 has led to a re-examination of wider use … significant reduction in the estimated $69 billion in 2010 U.S. dollars economic loss caused by malaria, it can also add more than …-Saharan African countries with high malaria incidence rates are likely to see relatively larger net benefits from the use of DDT in …

The government provision of free or subsidized bed nets to combat malaria in Benin allows the identification of new … nets and the hazards of malaria place a higher value on bed nets. Local government officials exercise significant …

Might a malaria control intervention entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial agribusiness to offset its … tend to strike a discord with recent evidence on the agricultural productivity effects of malaria control …

domestic deregulation affected the coffee sector, its main source of export revenues. Using data from three household surveys … covering the 1990s, the authors confirm a strong correlation between changes in coffee prices (in a liberalized market) and … dependence on coffee farming. Regression analysis (based on pooled data from the three surveys) of consumption expenditure on …