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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Econ Hist. 2007 Dec;67(4):1001–1035. doi: 10.1017/S0022050707000472

APPENDIX TABLE 5.

REGRESSION RESULTS BY THE MEASURE OF MALARIA RISK

Malaria Risk Estimation Method Model (5) in Table 2 Effect on Height at Enlistment Model (5) in Table 3 Effect on Susceptibility to Infections during the Civil War

Model Which Period and its Forts are Used to Estimate County Malaria Risk? Which Type of Fever in Fort Data is Used as Malarial Fever? Statistics of Estimated Risk



Mean Maximum Minimum Estimate t-value dx/dy z-value
(1) 1829–1838 / 1871–1874 intermittent / remittent 0.1601 0.4788 0.0138 −2.5749 −2.04 0.2902 4.66
(2) 1829–1838 / 1871–1874 intermittent 0.1256 0.3956 0.0079 −2.9729 −1.97 0.3580 4.79
(3) 1829–1838 / 1871–1874 remittent 0.0583 0.3579 0.0026 −6.0801 −2.55 0.5680 4.24
(4) 1829–1838 intermittent / remittent 0.1337 1.1156 0.0005 −1.1414 −1.40 0.1413 2.89
(5) 1871–1874 intermittent / remittent 0.1656 0.5603 0.0149 −2.3238 −1.83 0.3279 5.05
(6) County population weighted measure 0.1741 0.4491 0.0080 −1.9169 −1.93 0.3176 6.38

Notes: In model (3), I rescaled the risk variable with multiplying by 10. As weights in model (6), I used county population in the 1850 census. Model (6) uses all available forts in both periods, and both types of fevers.