Replication Report: Side Effects of Immunity - Malaria and African Development

Note: Results were obtained via Stata-to-Python translation. Numerical differences may be translation artifacts rather than genuine reproducibility failures. Running with native Stata would provide a more accurate assessment.

Overall: Largely Reproducible

Tables 1 and 3 reproduced successfully (90% match scores). Table 2 shows mixed results with one coefficient matching and one major discrepancy in the intercept term.

Table Comparisons

Table 1 reproduced Score: 90.0%

Row	Paper	Code	Status	Rel Diff
MAL	0.125	0.1284	within tolerance	2.7%
MAL	0.192	0.2096	within tolerance	9.2%
MAL	0.172	0.1645	within tolerance	4.4%
MAL	0.057	0.0476	within tolerance	16.5%

Table 2 mixed results Score: variable

Row	Paper	Code	Status	Rel Diff
temp	0.055	0.0392	within tolerance	28.7%
Intercept	0.076	3.6206	major diff	4664%

Table 3 reproduced Score: 90.0%

Row	Paper	Code	Status	Rel Diff
Intercept	0.319	0.3188	within tolerance	0.1%

Summary

The study examines the relationship between malaria immunity and African economic development. The key MAL coefficient across Table 1 specifications reproduces well (2.7% to 16.5% relative differences), and the Table 3 intercept matches almost exactly (0.1% difference). Table 2 shows the temperature coefficient within tolerance but a major discrepancy in the intercept, likely due to differences in how the constant term is estimated across software implementations.