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If it Pays, it Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?
Sedlmayr, Richard - 2017
Might a malaria control intervention entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial agribusiness to offset its costs? The randomized allocation of 39,936 insecticide-treated mosquito nets among 81,597 smallholder cotton farming households in 1,507 clusters helps evaluate this in the context...
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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2017
It is often argued that engaging in indoor residual spraying in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use. This is just a case of a public program having perverse incentives. This paper analyzes new data from a randomized control trial conducted in...
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Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity : Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment Among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters
Dillon, Andrew - 2017
Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but 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...
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Does Involvement of Local Ngos Enhance Public Service Delivery? Cautionary Evidence from a Malaria-Prevention Evaluation in India
Das, Ashis - 2017
Using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control program, this paper studies the impact of leveraging local non-state capacity to promote mosquito net usage and recommended fever care-seeking patterns. The supportive activities were conducted simultaneously by...
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Health Costs and Benefits of Ddt Use in Malaria Control and Prevention
Blankespoor, Brian - 2017
The Millennium Development Goal of achieving near-zero malaria deaths by 2015 has led to a re-examination of wider use of DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) in indoor residual spraying as a prevention tool in many countries. However, the use of DDT raises concerns of potential harm to the...
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Do Informed Citizens Receive More...Or Pay More? The Impact of Radio on the Government Distribution of Public Health Benefits
Keefer, Philip - 2017
The government provision of free or subsidized bed nets to combat malaria in Benin allows the identification of new channels through which mass media affect public policy outcomes. Prior research has concluded that governments provide greater private benefits to better-informed individuals....
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Education and Hiv/Aids Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya
Duflo, Esther - 2017
The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya …
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Impacts of Improved Biomass Cookstoves on Child and Adult Health : Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
LaFave, Daniel - 2019
in height-for-age of young children exposed during their first years of life, compared with a control group of households … children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865452
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Can Intense Exposure to Hand-Washing and Hygiene Information Campaigns Affect Children's Socio-Emotional Skills? Evidence from Senegal
Halliday, Timothy - 2017
Hygiene information and practices play a critical role in preventing diseases, particularly among children. Hygiene … presence of household communication assets to explore potential effects on children?s socio-emotional scores. In the presence … of contamination biases, the study exploited the longitudinal sample of children in the surveys to reduce time …
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A Randomized, Controlled Study of a Rural Sanitation Behavior Change Program in Madhya Pradesh, India
Patil, Sumeet - 2017
among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … outcomes. The study analyzed a random sample of 3,039 households and 5,206 children under five years of age. Field staff …
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