services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid … services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … waste disposal, schools, and health centers. In a regression analysis, we find a robust association between non …

minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and …This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life …

minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and …This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life …

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 from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a …

field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital … built toilets and reduced open defecation, resulting in substantial health benefits. In villages with low initial stocks of …

that all of the sanitation and health benefits accrue from villages where resource agencies implemented the program, while …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 …

This paper examines the effect of income polarisation on individual health. We argue that polarisation captures much … better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking income disparities and individual health … polarisation has a detrimental effect on health. We also find that the way the relevant population subgroups are defined is …

This paper examines the effect of income polarisation on individual health. We argue that polarisation captures much … better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking income disparities and individual health … polarisation has a detrimental effect on health. We also find that the way the relevant population subgroups are defined is …

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …