Agricultural policy, migration, and malaria in the 1930s United States
By: Alan Barreca, Price V. Fishback, Shawn Kantor
Contributors: Fishback, Price V.; Kantor, Shawn Everett; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 17526; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 17526.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) caused a population shift in the United States in the 1930s.  Evaluating the effects of the AAA on the incidence of malaria can therefore offer important lessons regarding the broader consequences of demographic changes.  Using a quasi-first difference model and a robust set of controls, we find a negative association between AAA expenditures and malaria death rates at the county level.  Further, we find the AAA caused relatively low-income groups to migrate from counties with high-risk malaria ecologies.  These results suggest that the AAA-induced migration played an important role in the reduction of malaria"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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