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 … sanitation). We also find that effects are stronger during the fetal period (2nd trimester of gestation), for children born …

. Second, it reviews the academic literature investigating the correlates of a comprehensive set of OSH indicators, which …

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 … Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls …

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 …