Long-term Health Effects of Malaria Exposure around Birth: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan

• Main Authors: CHANG, Simon, FLEISHER, Belton, KIM, Seonghoon, LIU, Shi-Yung
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Malaria; Barker Hypothesis; health; Taiwan; Asian Studies; Health Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1535; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2534/viewcontent/KIMSH2014LongTerm.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In the early 20th century, the Japanese colonial government initiated an island-wide malaria eradication campaign in Taiwan, resulting in not only a rapid decline in malaria across time but also elimination of disparity across regions. Exploiting variations in malaria deaths caused by the campaign,...