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Malaria Risk and Civil Violence
Cervellati, Matteo
Esposito, Elena
Sunde, Uwe
Valmori, Simona
Volkswirtschaft
Munich Discussion Papers in Economics
Entwicklungsökonomik
ddc:330
Using high-resolution data from Africa over the period 1998-2012, this paper investigates
the hypothesis that a higher exposure to malaria increases the incidence of civil violence. The analysis uses panel data at the 1° grid cell level at monthly frequency. The econometric identification exploits exogenous monthly within-grid-cell variation in weather conditions that are particularly suitable for malaria transmission. The analysis compares the effect across cells with different malaria exposure, which affects the resistance and immunity of the population to malaria outbreaks. The results document a robust effect of the occurrence of suitable conditions
for malaria on civil violence. The effect is highest in areas with low levels of immunities to malaria. Malaria shocks mostly affect unorganized violence in terms of riots, protests, and confrontations between militias and civilians, rather than geo-strategic violence, and the effect spikes during short, labor-intensive harvesting periods of staple crops that are particularly important
for the subsistence of the population. The paper ends with an evaluation of anti-malaria
interventions.
2017-03-10
eng
doc-type:workingPaper
Paper
Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; Sunde, Uwe und Valmori, Simona (10. März 2017): Malaria Risk and Civil Violence. Münchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge (VWL) 2017-8 [PDF, 2MB]
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https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36389/
10.5282/ubm/epub.36389