A Dam Problem: TVA's Fight Against Malaria, 1926-1951

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: University of Mississippi
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050713000582
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 694-724
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; new-deal; LIFE; eradication; exposure; burden; disease

摘要

The TVA has been applauded for its anti-malaria programs in the Southeast during the 1930s and 1940s. However, the TVA developed their anti-malaria programs because they created lakes suitable for mosquito breeding. To estimate the relationship between the TVA and malaria, I construct a county-level panel data from the Southeast United States. I find that the net effect of the TVA was to increase malaria rates following its construction. Using statistical life value estimates, I find that the hidden malaria cost of the TVA offset 24 percent of the fiscal stimulus multiplier generated by the TVA.