Showing 1 - 10 of 25
Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997171
Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997352
) and increase sanitation investments in Nigeria. The results of a cluster-randomized control trial in 246 communities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028682
increasing sanitation investments in Nigeria. The results of a cluster-randomized control trial conducted in 247 communities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265309
This paper estimates flexible child health production functions to investigate whether better water, sanitation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265313
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193560
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193561
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193574
coordination failure. Focusing on shared sanitation facilities for slum residents in two major Indian cities, we randomly allocate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625394
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480589