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Public service delivery, exclusion and externalities : theory and experimental evidence from india
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2023
, where we incentivized the quality of water and sanitation services in the two largest cities of Uttar Pradesh, India. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428061
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Public service delivery and free riding : experimental evidence from India
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella - 2022
This paper provides novel evidence on the trade-off between public service delivery and free riding in low- and middle-income countries. We implement a field experiment in the slums of two major Indian cities, where inadequate access to sanitation restricts residents to either free ride, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326510
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Does participatory budgeting have an effect on the quality of public services? : the case of Peru's water and sanitation sector
Jaramillo Baanante, Miguel; Alcázar, Lorena - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725172
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Does access to better water and sanitation infrastructure improve child outcomes? : evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2015
I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that there are large differences in access across countries and, within countries, between households living in urban and rural areas. Many papers in the public health literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486585
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When nature calls back : sustaining behavioural change in rural Pakistan
Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; Durrani, Zara; … - 2021
We implement a mixed method approach that combines a randomized controlled trial and qualitative data collection to assess whether, and if so how, behavioural change can be sustained. We do so in the context of Pakistan’s national sanitation strategy to combat open defecation, Community-Led...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802318
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Infrastructure services and early childhood development in Latin America and the Caribbean : water, sanitation, and garbage collection
Balza, Lenin H.; Cuartas, Jorge; Gomez-Parra, Nicolas; … - 2024
Access to essential infrastructure services such as water, sanitation, and garbage collection can considerably affect children's environment and may play a significant role in shaping early childhood developmental and health outcomes. Using data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014538991
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Sanitation and credit constraints : the role of labelled microcredit in India's Swacch Bharat Mission subsidy scheme
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2022
combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies – Swacch Bharat or ‘Clean India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822354
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Sanitation and marriage markets in India : evidence from the total sanitation campaign
Augsburg, Britta; Baquero, Juan P.; Gautam, Sanghmitra; … - 2021
We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799787
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Housing for India's low-income urban households: a demand perspective
Roy, Debarpita; Meera ML - 2020
Housing, particularly for low income urban households, is a long-standing challenge in India. In 2012, 96 per cent of … the all India urban housing shortage of 18.78 million was confined to low-income economic groups. This study empirically … examines three facets of urban India's housing demand using the latest available nationally representative household data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390043
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Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital : evidence from a survey experiment
Giannola, Michele - 2022 - This version: December 2022
mitigate the identification problem posed by observational data, I design a survey experiment with poor households in India. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472114