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the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). In June 2014, we reported the results of a survey of rural sanitation behaviour in north … coercion is correlated with variation in sanitation outcomes: in villages where more people report coercive SBM activities …
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) and increase sanitation investments in Nigeria. The results of a cluster-randomized control trial in 246 communities …
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increasing sanitation investments in Nigeria. The results of a cluster-randomized control trial conducted in 247 communities …
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This paper estimates flexible child health production functions to investigate whether better water, sanitation and …
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We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation … within the marital living arrangement. We demonstrate that the Government's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) changed marriage …
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We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study … how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We … we document influence borrowing and investments: uptake of the sanitation loan is higher among households where the wife …
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combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies - Swacch Bharat or 'Clean India …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …
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coordination failure. Focusing on shared sanitation facilities for slum residents in two major Indian cities, we randomly allocate …
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How much did rural sanitation in India change under the five years of the Swacch Bharat Mission? The best nationally … representative statistics on sanitation in India have long come from the Demographic and Health Surveys, known as the National Family …
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Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...
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