Replication Data for He (2026) analyzes the lasting socioeconomic impacts of China's nationwide public health campaigns against malaria, measles, and meningitis from the 1960s to 1980s. The study exploits regional variation in pre-campaign disease prevalence across birth cohorts to measure effects on education, cognition, health, and adult income. It was authored by Fan He and published via the Review of Economics and Statistics Dataverse.
Use Cases
- Estimate the effect of malaria_eradication_campaign_exposure on years_of_schooling and adult_income using regional_disease_prevalence data.
- Compare internal_rate_of_return metrics across measles_vaccination and meningitis_vaccination campaigns.
- Analyze the relationship between early-life_cognition_gains and long-run_income_effects across different birth_cohorts.
- Model the role of pre-campaign_disease_prevalence as an instrumental variable for health intervention impact studies.
Strengths
- Study published in a peer-reviewed economics journal (Review of Economics and Statistics).
- Analysis covers three major disease campaigns (malaria, measles, meningitis) over a 20-year period.
Limitations
- Specific column names, row counts, and file formats are not provided in the input.
- The dataset's size and completeness for independent replication are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- Review of Economics and Statistics Dataverse, authored by Fan He.
- Collection Method
- Constructed for replicating an econometric analysis exploiting regional variation in disease prevalence.
- Time Range
- Covers public health campaigns from the 1960s to 1980s, with long-term outcome tracking.
- Freshness
- Dataset was last updated on April 1, 2026.
- Geography
- China.