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A comment on "Private health investments under competing risks: Evidence from malaria control in Senegal"

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  • Colombe, Kenneth
  • Kroczek, Martin
  • Kumar, Mukesh
  • Otto, Felix

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We reassess Rossi and Villar (2020), who study whether large subsidies for malaria prevention in Senegal increased parental investments in child health. Using the authors' curated analysis files, we first establish computational reproducibility of the published tables and figures. We then conduct a focused and robustness replication of the main difference-in-differences result on child health expenditures and health-seeking behavior. We corroborate the original findings that child health expenditures and health-seeking behavior in more malarious areas "catch up" after the subsidy, primarily via the extensive margin. The replication scope was constrained by the absence of raw data and cleaning scripts, as well as sparse documentation of variable construction in the primary dataset.

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  • Colombe, Kenneth & Kroczek, Martin & Kumar, Mukesh & Otto, Felix, 2026. "A comment on "Private health investments under competing risks: Evidence from malaria control in Senegal"," I4R Discussion Paper Series 331, The Institute for Replication (I4R).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:i4rdps:331
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    JEL classification:

    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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