divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu … religion) have lower access to tap water than correspondingly homogeneous communities. Communities that are fragmented across …

We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a … girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her … household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …

concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and … during the dry season, and for mortality in the first 6 months of life. The results seem to be driven by water scarcity per …