Market Integration and the Long-Term Health Impacts of Drought

说明（由申请人提供）：本项目分为两部分：它将审查出生在干旱地区对健康的长期影响，并将调查市场一体化如何减轻出生在资源贫乏环境的影响。这项分析的背景是南非，这是一个经常经历干旱的国家，在不同的时间点限制了国内个人的流动。我将使用来自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关键时期的信息结合起来，这些信息将国家划分为或多或少与市场整合的时期。待检验的假设是，在个人活动限制较少的时期，干旱对健康的影响减轻了。

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.