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health benefits, such as decreased diarrhea incidence of in under-five children, improved child anthropometrics stunting …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 …
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Almost nine million children under five years of age die every year. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading … for children under five years of age in India. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM), we fi nd that access to improved … sanitation reduces the risk of contracting diarrhea by 2.2 percentage points. There is considerable heterogeneity in the impacts …
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children under five years of age in India. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM), we find that access to improved sanitation …Almost nine million children under five years of age die every year. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading … improved sanitation. We neither find statistically signicant treatment effects for children in low or middle socioeconomic …
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methods to quantify the impacts of water quality and sanitation behavior on diarrhea incidence among children under five years …This paper examines the impact of drinking water quality and sanitation behavior on child health in rural districts of … child diarrhea by 16% and 23% respectively. In contrast, neighborhood concentration of pit latrine increases incidence of …
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improved sanitation and fixed-point defecation. There is a 47 percent reduction in diarrhea prevalence between children living …This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … sanitation, and an external benefit (externality) produced by the neighborhood's access to sanitation infrastructure. The paper …
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improved sanitation and fixed-point defecation. There is a 47 percent reduction in diarrhea prevalence between children living …This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … sanitation, and an external benefit (externality) produced by the neighborhood's access to sanitation infrastructure. The paper …
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for age in a semi-urban setting in Northern India. We use instrumental variables to control for endogeneity of sanitation … impediment to human capital development. Specifically, we examine the effects of sanitation coverage and usage on child height … usage coverage. We find that sanitation coverage plays a significant and positive role in height growth during the first …
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I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that … sanitation, on the one hand, and child outcomes like the incidence of diarrhea or child development, on the other. These papers … the extension of coverage of water and sanitation infrastructure, although the evidence is limited to child mortality …
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In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognized access to safe water and sanitation infrastructure a matter of … sanitation infrastructure and long-term child nutrition outcomes (height-for-age and weight-for-age). On the other hand, the … health and nutrition than the existence of sanitation infrastructure. Finally, irrigation is not per se a detrimental factor …
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outcomes of children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous … health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when … parents are informed about the health risk of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than …
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