interaction of those forces influenced water and sanitary infrastructure provision during the 19th and early 20th centuries. I … show the sharp link between infrastructure investments and declines in waterborne disease and discuss how that relationship … the benefits of infrastructure investment far exceeded the costs …

, suggesting a painful tradeoff between dictatorship and disorder. A simple model suggests that private provision of infrastructure …

their chores, possibly at the expense of time they spend doing schoolwork. Imperfect infrastructure appears to burden the …

(degradation) of water pipes and inadequate sanitation infrastructure attenuated these benefits substantially, ranging from no … decline in cities with the worst infrastructure to 80% in those with the best – a decline consistent with historical …

infrastructure to households is expensive. Many poor countries have therefore focused instead on providing community-level water … infrastructure, such as wells. Various traditional child health interventions have been shown to be effective in fighting diarrhea … that providing community-level rural water infrastructure substantially reduces diarrheal disease or that this …