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Basic sanitation and hygiene can prevent roughly a million deaths a year. This study examines the rapid prototyping of … a pilot school-based handwashing, safe water, and sanitation program in Chennai, India. Our content analysis identified … commitment), factors outside the class but within the school (School administration and support and Hygiene and sanitation …
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Access to water, sanitation and hygiene is indispensable to development, but what will it take for Africa to achieve … Goal 6, which promises water, sanitation and hygiene to all by 2030. It finds that Africa is not on track to meet this goal … water, sanitation and hygiene based on countries’ 2015 baselines …
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Hygiene information and practices play a critical role in preventing diseases, particularly among children. Hygiene behaviors practiced in the household have been linked to development outcomes such as socio-emotional skills. This paper exploits data from impact evaluation surveys of a hygiene...
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We assess the effects of rise in minimum wages on hygiene violation scores in food service establishments. Using a difference-in-difference analysis on hygiene rating of food establishments in Seattle [where minimum wage increased annually between 2010 and 2013] as the treated group and from New...
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In late June 2013, the city of Louisville, Kentucky, announced plans to provide restaurant health inspection data to Yelp.com for publication on their popular online consumer-review forum. These data were already publicly available on the city's website. I utilize this partnership to test...
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Behavioral constraints may explain part of low demand for preventive health products. We test the effects of two light-touch psychological interventions on water chlorination and related health and economic outcomes using a randomized controlled trial among 3750 women in rural Kenya. One...
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This study examines the effect of an increase in product quality information to consumers on firms' choices of product quality. In 1998, Los Angeles County introduced hygiene quality grade cards to be displayed in restaurant windows. We show that the grade cards cause (i) restaurant health...
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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...
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