Mid - twentieth century malaria eradication campaigns largely eliminated malaria
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Question
Mid - twentieth century malaria eradication campaigns largely eliminated malaria from Paraguay and Sri Lanka. Adrienne Lucas (professor in our department) identifies the effects of malaria on female educational attainment in these countries. We will calculate the average effect for Sri Lanka. Suppose the average years of schooling in highly malarious regions was 4.273 years for females born between 1937 - 47 (pre - eradication years), but increased to 6.211 years for females born after the eradication. The mean years of schooling in the less malarious regions was 5.714 for cohorts born in the pre - eradication period and 6.600 years for cohorts born after. What is the average effect of the malaria eradication on years of schooling? Express this effect as a percentage of the pre - eradication schooling level in the malarious region s.
Explanation / Answer
average = 6.600 - 5.74 = 0.86 years