Jeffrey Sachs

The Historical Burden of Malaria: New Evidence, New Questions

By Jacob Patterson-Stein Why are some countries rich and other countries poor? From Plato to Adam Smith to the Simpsons, the best and brightest have wrestled with this question. In a new working paper, “Malaria and Early African Development: Evidence from the Sickle Cell Trait,” presented at the Georgetown Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (gui2de) seminar […]