Replication data for: Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure

This study uses the malaria-eradication campaigns in the United States (circa 1920) and in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico (circa 1955) to measure how much childhood exposure to malaria depresses labor productivity. The campaigns began because of advances in health technology, which mitigates concerns about reverse causality. Malarious areas saw large drops in the disease thereafter. Relative to non-malarious areas, cohorts born after eradication had higher income as adults than the preceding generation. These cross-cohort changes coincided with childhood exposure to the campaigns rather than to pre-existing trends. Estimates suggest a substantial, though not predominant, role for malaria in explaining cross-region differences in income. (JEL I12, I18, J13, O15)本研究以1920年左右的美国、1955年左右的巴西、哥伦比亚及墨西哥开展的疟疾根除运动为研究场景，量化儿童时期暴露于疟疾对成年劳动生产率的抑制作用。本次根除运动源于卫生技术的进步，这一背景可有效缓解反向因果关系带来的内生性疑虑。疟疾流行地区的疟疾发病率在此后出现大幅回落。相较于非疟疾流行地区，根除运动后出生的出生队列成年后的收入水平高于前序世代。此类队列间的收入变化与儿童时期接触根除运动的经历高度相关，而非源于既有的发展趋势。估算结果表明，尽管并非主导性因素，但疟疾在解释地区间收入差异方面发挥了显著作用。(JEL I12, I18, J13, O15)