10.17889/E110679
Berazneva, Julia
Byker, Tanya S.
Replication data for: Does Forest Loss Increase Human Disease? Evidence from Nigeria
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2017
10.1257/aer.p20171132
10.1257/aer.p20171132
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We examine the impact of forest loss on three infectious diseases attributed to modifiable environmental factors in the last decade in Nigeria. Geolinking a new high-resolution dataset of global forest change to child-level health data from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys from 2008 and 2013, we find that forest loss significantly increases the incidence of malaria, though it does not affect the incidence of diarrhea and respiratory diseases. The impact of forest loss on malaria is large and the dynamic pattern of the impact suggests a temporary ecological disturbance consistent with findings in the tropical medicine literature.