The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development

Marcella Alsan (2015) · American Economic Review

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-575", tranche="tranche150")

Marcella Alsan (2015). American Economic Review. Table I.

Template assessment

The audited headline is a cross-sectional regression of precolonial outcomes on the continuous TseTse Suitability Index, with province clustering. It has no adoption clock or pretreatment panel.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.