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The Effect of Malaria on Settlement and Land Use: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

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  • Shufang Zhang

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  • Marcia C. Castro

    () (Harvard School of Public Health)

  • David Canning

    () (Harvard School of Public Health)

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We estimate the effect of malaria on settlement and land use patterns in the Brazilian Amazon, where potential settlers were randomly assigned to plots in a newly opened settlement area. The random assignment allows us to estimate the risk of malaria on each plot based only on its characteristics. Using survey data, we find that a high malaria risk significantly reduces the probability that a plot is inhabited. Using satellite images, we find that a high malaria risk does not reduce forest clearance or crop coverage on a plot. Non-resident farming substitutes for physical inhabitation when malaria risk is high.

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Paper provided by Program on the Global Demography of Aging in its series PGDA Working Papers with number 7711.

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Date of creation: Nov 2011
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Keywords: malaria; settlement; land use; Brazil; Amazon;

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