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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...
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Fiscal decentralization and development : how crucial is local politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal...
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Out of communal land: clientelism through delegation of agricultural tenancy contracts
Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2021
Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where democratically elected village heads receive usufruct rights over a piece of communal village...
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Microdata for social sciences and policy evaluation as a public good
Trivellato, Ugo - 2017
The balance between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of information is altered when scientific research comes into play, because of its inherent needs and societal function. This paper argues that, for research purposes, microdata should be characterised as a public good. The...
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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico
Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019
This paper uses state-level data on migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden). While lower than average...
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Initial conditions matter : social capital and participatory development
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Olivia, Susan; Shah, Manisha - 2015
field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital …
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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 …
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Scaling up sanitation : evidence from an RCT in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Shah, Manisha - 2017
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 …
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Legal status and deprivation in India's urban slums : an analysis of two decades of national sample survey data
Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017
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...
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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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