Malaria Risk and Civil Violence

Epidemic Shocks and Civil Violence: Evidence from Malaria Outbreaks in Africa

“…Technically, the analysis exploits exogenous month-by-month variation in weather conditions within cells in combination with variation in the susceptibility of the population to outbreaks, while conditioning on cell×year and calendar month fixed effects thereby implicitly accounting for seasonal effects and for all unobserved factors that affect violence in a given location and year.3 The paper indirectly contributes to the studies of the role of life expectancy in general, and of malaria in particular, for long-term development(Cervellati & Sunde, 2011;Cervellati, Sunde, & Valmori, 2017;Cervellati, Chiovelli, & Esposito, 2020;and Depetris-Chauvin & Weil, 2018).Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-pdf/doi/10.1162/rest_a_01050/2022906/rest_a_01050.pdf by UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BOLOGNA user on 17 June 2022…”