Cutler, David M.; Kremer, Michael; Singhal, Monica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
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...