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Benefits trickling away: The health impact of extending access to piped water and sanitation in urban Yemen
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Meier, Kristina; … - 2012
This article investigates the impact of piped water supply and sanitation on health outcomes in urban Yemen using a … separate identification of water and sanitation impacts. Results indicate that access to piped water supply worsens health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329881
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The impact of drinking water quality and sanitation on child health: Evidence from rural Ethiopia
Usman, Muhammed A.; Gerber, Nikolaus; von Braun, Joachim - 2016
This paper examines the impact of drinking water quality and sanitation behavior on child health in rural districts of … methods to quantify the impacts of water quality and sanitation behavior on diarrhea incidence among children under five years … desired health benefits of sanitation. To protect rural households from the risk of contracting communicable diseases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588708
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Using text analysis to target government inspections : evidence from restaurant hygiene inspections and online reviews
Kang, Jun Seok; Kuznetsova, Polina; Choi, Yejin; Luca, … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009770303
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Benefits trickling away : the health impact of extending access to piped water and sanitation in urban Yemen
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Meier, Kristina; … - 2012
This article investigates the impact of piped water supply and sanitation on health outcomes in urban Yemen using a … separate identification of water and sanitation impacts. Results indicate that access to piped water supply worsens health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357535
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The impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health in rural households of north-western Bangladesh : a quasi-experimental analysis
Hasan, Mohammad Monirul; Gerber, Nikolaus - 2016
We investigated the impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes in marginalized … group of households to identify gains in water-sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes. We found that the BMDA piped water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503129
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The impact of drinking water quality and sanitation on child health : evidence from rural Ethiopia
Usman, Muhammed A.; Gerber, Nikolaus; Braun, Joachim von - 2016
This paper examines the impact of drinking water quality and sanitation behavior on child health in rural districts of … methods to quantify the impacts of water quality and sanitation behavior on diarrhea incidence among children under five years … desired health benefits of sanitation. To protect rural households from the risk of contracting communicable diseases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521130
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Incomplete disclosure: evidence of signaling and countersignaling
Bederson, Benjamin B.; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Leslie, Phillip; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559373
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Inspection Technology, Detection and Compliance : Evidence from Florida Restaurant Inspections
Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2013
In this article, we show that a small innovation in inspection technology can make substantial differences in inspection outcomes. For restaurant hygiene inspections, the state of Florida has introduced a handheld electronic device, the portable digital assistant (PDA), which reminds inspectors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083806
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What Do Consumers Learn from Regulator Ratings? Evidence from Restaurant Hygiene Quality Disclosures
Kim, Tami - 2019
Across a range of industries, regulators use ratings to inform consumers about firms and products. Using online experiments, we investigate two pathways through which individuals extract the information communicated by such ratings: beliefs about the distribution of ratings (e.g., how often good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897576
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Consumer Reviews and Regulation : Evidence from NYC Restaurants
Farronato, Chiara; Zervas, Georgios - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate the informativeness of hygiene signals in online reviews, and their effect on consumer choice and restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated restaurant inspections, we find that reviews are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938684