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Ecosystems and human health : the local benefits of forest cover in Indonesia
Garg, Teevrat - 2019
This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126012
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Long-term effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health : evidence from colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon; Fleisher, Belton M.; Kim, Seonghoon; Liu, … - 2011
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan in the early 20th century. We find that malaria exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232535
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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health : Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon - 2011
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan in the early 20th century. We find that malaria exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129095
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Early life adversity, biological adaptation, and human capital : evidence from an interrupted malaria control program in Zambia
Fink, Guenther; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; Zanolini, … - In: Journal of health economics 80 (2021), pp. 1-19
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013179169
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Large-scale antimalarial interventions and birth weight: empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Petrova, Olga; Coleman, Joseph; Picone, Gabriel A. - In: The empirical economics letters : a monthly … 18 (2019) 12, pp. 1221-1228
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012372826
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Biting back at malaria : assessing health‐service providers' compliance with treatment guidelines
Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Reichert, Arndt R. - In: Review of development economics 21 (2017) 3, pp. 591-626
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813879
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Role of malaria control in improving child health in mainland Tanzania : Evidence from a rapid policy scale-up
Gansey, Romeo J. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 125 (2020), pp. 1-19
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Formal education, malaria preventive behaviour, and children's malarial status in Tanzania
Klejnstrup Ritter, Ninja; Lincoln, Joel Silas - 2018
children's risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by … prophylaxis during pregnancy by between 3.7 and 14.5 percentage points, and their children's probability of sleeping under an … insecticide-treated bed net (ITN) by between 1.8 and 3.0 percentage points. Results for both women's use of ITN and children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789021
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Biting back at malaria : self-medication, traditional healers, and the public sector
Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Reichert, Arndt R. - 2013
Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment … areas of known resistance, and to relieve children of malaria symptoms after having had fever within the last two weeks. Our …Durch Malaria sterben täglich etwa 1500 Kinder. In dem vorliegenden Artikel werden DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009735875
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Accounting for the rapid reduction of child stunting in Tanzania over 2005-2016
Headey, Derek; Heckert, Jessica; Ndiaye, Biram; Brero, Mauro - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460204