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 …

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 …

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

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. …

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 …

Massachusetts slowly shrunk by 90% for exogenous reasons between 1963 and 1990. While water supply decreased, land supply increased … shrinking, implying limited adaptation. Additionally, the negative water supply effects on fishing, farming, and herding …