Agricultural policy, migration, and malaria in the 1930s United States

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Barreca, Alan I. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Fishback, Price (VerfasserIn), Kantor, Shawn Everett (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. 2011
Schriftenreihe:NBER working paper series 17526
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Zusammenfassung:"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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