divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu … religion) have lower access to tap water than correspondingly homogeneous communities. Communities that are fragmented across …

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 from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …

divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu … religion) have lower access to tap water than correspondingly homogeneous communities. Communities that are fragmented across …

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 … during the dry season, and for mortality in the first 6 months of life. The results seem to be driven by water scarcity per …

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. …

productivity from adoption of genetically modified soybeans and look at externalities across municipalities sharing the same water … externality effects of glyphosate use on populations distant from the original locations of use, but receiving water from these …

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

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. …