TY  - JOUR
AU  - Cutler,David
AU  - Fung,Winnie
AU  - Kremer,Michael
AU  - Singhal,Monica
AU  - Vogl,Tom
TI  - Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13539
PY  - 2007
Y2  - October 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13539
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13539.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David M. Cutler
Department of Economics
Harvard University
1875 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/496-5216
Fax: 617/496-8951
E-Mail: dcutler@harvard.edu

Winnie Fung
Department of Business and Economics
Wheaton College
501 College Avenue
Wheaton, IL 60187
Tel: 630-752-7100
E-Mail: winnie.fung@wheaton.edu

Michael Kremer
Harvard University
Department of Economics
Littauer Center M20
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-9145
Fax: 617/495-7730
E-Mail: mkremer@fas.harvard.edu

Monica Singhal
Harvard University
JFK School of Government
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/496-5062
Fax: 617/496-6372
E-Mail: monica_singhal@harvard.edu

Tom Vogl
363 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
E-Mail: tvogl@princeton.edu
AB  - 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 using very localized sources of geographic variation and to instrumenting for pre-eradication prevalence with climate factors. We do not observe improvements in income for women, suggesting that observed effects are likely driven by increased labor market productivity. We find no evidence of increased educational attainment for men, and mixed evidence for women.
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