Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline … in wealthy countries. However, water disinfection often does not produce equivalent benefits in developing countries … today. We investigate this puzzle by analyzing an abrupt, large-scale municipal water disinfection program in Mexico in 1991 …

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

in the geographical coverage and timing of construction of safe government piped water schemes to identify the effects of …

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. …

services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …

that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …

much-reduced estimate of the effect of water filtration on infant mortality is a dramatic and surprising departure from the … consensus view in the literature. In addition, we show that the estimated effect of water filtration on total mortality is …

health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying … the literature, we provide new evidence on the effects of water filtration and chlorination, extending the work of …

According to Troesken (2004), efforts to purify municipal water supplies at the turn of the 20th century dramatically … water purification efforts and the black-white infant mortality gap. Our results suggest that, while water filtration was … effective across the board, adding chlorine to the water supply reduced mortality only among black infants. Specifically …

This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea … consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing … mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication strategies tying areas with lower initial water quality to larger …