While human mobility has important benefits for economic growth, it can generate negative externalities. This paper studies the effect of mobility on the spread of disease in a low-incidence setting when people do not internalize their risks to others. Using malaria as a case study and 15 billion mobile phone records across nine million SIM cards, this paper causally quantifies the relationship between travel and the spread of disease. The estimates...
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2020/03/30
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Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas
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WPS9198
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2020/03/30
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Using Mobile Phone Data to Reduce Spread of Disease
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Development Impact Evaluation
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