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Abstract
The study investigated the impact of Malaria on Labour Productivity in Nigeria; A study of tertiary institutions in Imo state. The objective of the study is to examine the impact of malaria on Labour Productivity. The study used coded data obtained from a field survey conducted with a well-structured questionnaire. The model has Health seeking behaviour (HSB) and Cost of Malaria Treatment (COT) as explanatory variable while Labour Productivity (LAB-Prod) as dependent variable. The mean response of the respondents were calculated and compared with the criterion mean to determine if the question is positive or negative. Ordinary Least Square estimate was used to analyze the impact of the Independent Variables on the dependent variable. The result revealed that HSB has positive effect on Lab-Prod while COT has negative effect on Lab-prod. The OLS result also found that COT has significant impact on Lab-Prod while HSB is found to have an insignificant impact on Lab-Prod. The adjusted R2 (0.72) shows that the model is very robust and has a good fit. The D-statistics showed that there is no presence of autocorrelation. The F-statistics showed that the explanatory variables jointly affect the dependent variable. Thus, we recommend that the Federal Government through its ministry of education should initiate policies and programmes that will build a good hospital in every institutions of higher learning to enable staffs, staffs children, students, and any biological relations of staffs to have quality medical care at a reduced cost. This will help enhance the productivity of staffs in tertiary institutions in the country.