TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barreca,Alan
AU  - Fishback,Price V.
AU  - Kantor,Shawn
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - October 2011; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w17526
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17526
ER  -