Showing 1 - 10 of 368
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960024
field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407813
In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631522
Little is known about how children of high-income expatriate families, often from rich nations, adapt to temporary residence in a severely polluted city of the developing world. We use a six-year panel of 6,500 students at three international schools in a major city in north China to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760109
This is a rejoinder to a comment written by Cutler and Miller on our recent paper, "Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972424
Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900-1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying interventions such as treating sewage and setting strict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903985
Can high-quality local governance alleviate the environmental impact of large-scale refugee migration? The recent surge in refugee flows has brought additional challenges to local governments in Europe, the Middle East and certain regions of Africa and Asia. In this paper, we focus on the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201750
age (degradation) of water pipes and lack of complementary sanitation infrastructure play important roles in attenuating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625391
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS … constraints faced by poorer households limit their ability to improve sanitation. We also examine the program's scale up process … that all of the sanitation and health benefits accrue from villages where resource agencies implemented the program, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625393
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