Similar Search Results

Still waters run deep : groundwater contamination and education outcomes in India

Aggarwal, Khushboo; Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - 2024

We investigate the impact of groundwater contamination on educational outcomes in India. Our study leverages variations … exposure to contaminants. Using self-collected survey data from public schools in Assam, one of the most groundwater …-contaminated regions in India, we find that prolonged exposure to unsafe groundwater is associated with increased school absenteeism, grade …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495916

Climate adaptation policies and infant health: evidence from a water policy in Brazil

Mata, Daniel da; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor; … - 2021

This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall harvesting. Access to cisterns during early pregnancy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517152

Water scarcity and social conflict

Unfried, Kerstin; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Poser, Tilman - 2021

intensifying water cycle more than triple the local likelihood of social conflict. Access to groundwater and surface water helps to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612654

A subscription vs. appropriation framework for natural resource conflicts

Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2020

We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affect both inter-group conflicts over the appropriation of such goods and decentralized private provision for their production. Our model integrates production versus...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295566

Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; … - 2015

arsenic contamination of groundwater to construct several measures for arsenic contamination that include the actual arsenic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347206

Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; … - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441056

The effects of climate change in the poorest countries : evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad

Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023

Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334953