@article{009b8398d9844c42a842bb7d88116fd4,
title = "Agricultural policy, migration, and malaria in the United States in the 1930s",
abstract = "The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was associated with a population shift in the United States in the 1930s. Evaluating the relationship between the AAA and 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 that the AAA was associated with increased out-migration of low-income groups from counties with high-risk malaria ecologies. These results suggest that the AAA-induced migration played an important role in the reduction of malaria.",
keywords = "Agricultural policy, Demographic change, Malaria, Migration",
author = "Barreca, {Alan I.} and Fishback, {Price V.} and Shawn Kantor",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Stefano Barbieri, Hoyt Bleakley, Leah Platt Boustan, Louis Cain, Michael Haines, Suk Chul Hong, Carl Kitchens, Peter Lindert, Jason Lindo, Jane Loomis, Naci Mocan, Shahar Sansani, Catherine Shester, Glen Waddell, Alex Whalley, and the seminar participants at Tulane University, LSU-Baton Rouge, the University of Oregon, the 2010 PAA meetings, the CPE at the University of Chicago, the NBER DAE Summer Institute, RAND, the University of California-San Diego, the University of California-Davis, the 2012 SEA meetings, and the 2012 SOLE meetings. Joshua Pollack and Leila Abu-Orf provided excellent research assistance. Barreca's data collection efforts benefitted from the Agricultural History Grant and the Dissertation Year Fellowship from University of California-Davis. Also, financial support from the Kurzius family and the Committee on Research at Tulane University was beneficial. Fishback's and Kantor's work on the New Deal has been supported by National Science Foundation Grants SBR-9708098 , SES-0080324 , SES-0214395 , SES-0617942 , SES-0617972 , and SES- 0921732 . We are solely responsible for the views expressed in the article.",
year = "2012",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/j.eeh.2012.05.003",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "49",
pages = "381--398",
journal = "Explorations in Economic History",
issn = "0014-4983",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "4",
}