| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19245 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19245 |
| Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa | |
| Margaret S. McMillan; William A. Masters; Harounan Kazianga | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-07-18 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the regional Onchocerciasis Control Program (OCP). The OCP ran from 1975 to 2002, first spraying rivers to stop transmission and then distributing medicine to help those already infected. Controlling for time and village fixed effects, we find that villages in treated areas acquired larger populations and also had more cropland transactions, fewer permits required for cropland transactions, and more regulation of common property pasture and forest. These effects are robust to numerous controls and tests for heterogeneity across the sample, including time-varying region fixed effects. Descriptive statistics suggest that treated villages also acquired closer access to electricity and telephone service, markets, wells and primary schools, with no difference in several other variables. These results are consistent with both changes in productivity and effects of population size on public institutions. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Environmental and Resource Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19245 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576919 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Margaret S. McMillan,William A. Masters,Harounan Kazianga. Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa. 2013. |
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