Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207507 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12683
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial incidence. Falsification tests reveal that the effect is specific to malaria, with forest cover having no discernible effect on other diseases with a disease ecology different from that of malaria. Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that the morbidity-related malaria-reducing local benefits of primary forests are at least $1-$2 per hectare.
Subjects: 
deforestation
malaria
JEL: 
Q53
O13
Q56
Q57
Q20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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