Market Integration and the Long-Term Health Impacts of Drought

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目有两个部分：它将检查出生在干旱的长期健康影响，并将调查市场的整合如何减轻出生在资源贫乏环境的影响。分析的背景是南非，该国经常发生干旱，在不同的时间限制了国内个人的流动。我将使用一项新的全国家庭调查的新数据，这些数据与20世纪30年代至21世纪初的天气地理信息相匹配，并将其与种族隔离历史上的关键时期的信息相结合，这些关键时期将国家划分为更多和更少的市场一体化时期。有待检验的假设是，在个人行动较少受到限制的时期，干旱对健康的影响会减轻。 公共卫生相关性：这项研究将有助于我们了解非洲最普遍的自然灾害的长期后果：干旱;以及一体化的劳动力市场和行动自由如何减轻这些影响。该项目将提供经验证据，说明出生在资源有限的时期对南非黑人客观和自我报告的健康状况的影响，当时他们的行动自由或多或少受到种族隔离时期前政府的限制。这项研究的结果将对处理撒哈拉以南非洲经常发生的干旱的直接和长期影响的决策者有意义。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project has two parts: it will examine the long-term health impacts of being born in a drought and it will investigate how the integration of markets mitigate the effects of being born into a resource-poor environment. The context for the analysis is South Africa, a country that experiences recurrent drought and which, at various points in time, restricted mobility of individuals within the country. I will use new data from a new national household survey matched to geographic information on weather from the 1930s to the 2000s and combine this with information on critical periods in apartheid history that segment the country into more and less market-integrated periods. The hypothesis to be tested is that in periods where individual movement was less restricted, the health impacts of drought are mitigated. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This study will contribute to what we know about the long-term consequences of Africa's most prevalent natural disaster: drought; and on how integrated labor markets and freedom of movement may mitigate these effects. The project will provide empirical evidence on the effects of being born in a resource-constrained time on the objective and self-reported health status of black South Africans, during periods when their freedom of movement was more or less restricted by the previous government under apartheid. The findings of this research will be relevant to policy-makers who deal with the immediate and longer-run effects of recurrent drought in sub-Saharan Africa.