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In this study, we assess formal education as a causal determinant of women's malaria preventive behaviour, as well as … children's risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by … educational reforms during the 1970s. We use data from a total of four rounds of either Demographic and Health Surveys or Malaria …
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Bleakley (2010) finds that large-scale campaigns in the 20th century to eradicate malaria were followed by income gains … robust. Malaria eradication efforts indeed appear to have been followed by anomalous income gains for natives of historically …
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prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and occupational choice of workers in these … sectors 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 …
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Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment … malaria occur. To assess the quality of each health care provider (including, among others, public health centers and … areas of known resistance, and to relieve children of malaria symptoms after having had fever within the last two weeks. Our …
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Malaria still claims a heavy human and economic toll, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa. Even though the causality … between malaria and poverty is presumably bi-directional, malaria plays a role in the economic difficulties of the region …. This article provides an analysis of the economic consequences of malaria (with an emphasis on human capital accumulation …
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The study examines the relationship between climatic factors and reported malaria cases using data from 12 districts in …; maximum humidity; precipitation; precipitation standard deviation; malaria cases; health facilities; hospital beds; health … and variability in precipitation, maximum and minimum humidity have a significant positive effect on malaria cases …
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