I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that … areas. Many papers in the public health literature show associations between access to clean water sources or improved … the extension of coverage of water and sanitation infrastructure, although the evidence is limited to child mortality …

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 Total Sanitation. Our findings demonstrate that continued follow …-up activities, that build on the original intervention, reduced reversal to unsafe sanitation, but only where initial conditions are …

, where we incentivized the quality of water and sanitation services in the two largest cities of Uttar Pradesh, India. We … possible externalities that result from excluded users accessing alternative options in the context of sanitation, i.e., open … show that higher service quality increases fee compliance but excludes some users, leading to unintended negative health …

-income countries. We implement a field experiment in the slums of two major Indian cities, where inadequate access to sanitation …

close to and on both sides of the geographic boundary of piped water supply. Our work finds that access to piped water was … that suggest that it is not enough for a household to be connected to the water supply network, but that a minimum …

on an index of female agency and women's sexual and fertility preferences. Gender-targeted aid has a further positive … impact on women's sexual and fertility preferences, and more tentatively on an index focusing on gender-based violence …. However, the positive impact of gender-targeted aid disappears in patrilineal communities, and men's attitudes towards female …

Health constitutes a fundamental aspect of our well-being. It is also a key factor in determining our contribution to … market and non-market output. Health inequality refers to the unequal realization of health outcomes between different groups … in the population. Systematic disparities in health outcomes and in access to health resources not only undermine basic …