This paper reexamines the causal link between institutional quality and economic development using "Malaria Endemicity … suffered from measurement error, including "settler mortality." Because the Malaria Endemicity measure captures the malaria …, it is exogenous to both institutional quality and economic development. We find Malaria Endemicity a valid strong …

results indicate quantitatively important direct negative performance effects of a measure of disease ecology, namely malaria …

reported missing direct performance effects of a measure of geography such as malaria prevalence are not robust to alternative … specifications and samples. Unbiased estimates of the relative performance effects of institutions and malaria prevalence are … estimates suggest that malaria prevalence exhibits a large negative direct impact on economic performance, as postulated by …

Malaria – a disease caused by parasitic microorganisms of the Plasmodium genus – has been shown to impede economic … malaria outbreaks are associated with an immediate decline in economic development approximated by night light intensity. We …