An early Christmas present: strides toward eradicating malaria?

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

The development impact blog summarizes encouraging recent progress toward eliminating malaria. Regular readers will be aware of the growing body of evidence indicating that early-life malaria exposure significantly stunts education and wages for people’s entire lies. Thus this potentially huge win is even bigger than it looks. Fingers crosses for continued success in this fight into the new year and beyond.

About Jason Kerwin

Jason Kerwin is a second-year graduate student in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan, where he is pursuing concentrations in development economics and labor economics. He is also a Student Associate at Michigan's Center for Global Health and an Economic Demography Trainee at the Population Studies Center. Jason completed his M.A. in International Policy Studies at Stanford University, where he also received a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in International Relations. His research focuses on health care and behavioral economics in the developing world. He is currently located in Zomba, Malawi, where he is conducting field research for several projects.
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