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The gender education gap in China : the power of water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, William S. - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830743
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Urban water disinfection and mortality decline in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Díaz Cayeros, Alberto; Miller, Grant; … - 2017
age (degradation) of water pipes and lack of complementary sanitation infrastructure play important roles in attenuating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625391
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Changes in open defecation in rural North India: 2014-2018
Gupta, Aashish; Khalid, Nazar; Desphande, Devashish; … - 2019
the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). In June 2014, we reported the results of a survey of rural sanitation behaviour in north … coercion is correlated with variation in sanitation outcomes: in villages where more people report coercive SBM activities …
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A community based program promotes sanitation
Alzúa, Mará Laura; Djebbari, Habiba; Pickering, Amy J. - 2018
Basic sanitation facilities are still lacking in large parts of the developing world, engendering serious environmental … sanitation solutions. They are also associated with shifts in the social norm governing sanitation. Taken together, our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821505