of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …

This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey …

among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … coverage in rural India by 2012. This paper reports on a cluster-randomized, controlled trial that was conducted in 80 rural … villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health …

Early life health and net nutrition shape childhood and adult cognitive skills and human capital. In poor countries … India's Total Sanitation Campaign, a large government program that encouraged local governments to build and promote use of …

health. Obtaining empirical estimates of the benefits generated by the first is straightforward, not so those generated by … in connection with the all-India rural roads program Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, using an overlapping generations … and mortality. Based on survey evidence from upland Orissa in India and Bangladesh, as well as elements of more usual …

This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a … poor, drought-prone region of India. Of 30 villages originally surveyed in 2001-02, when two had such roads, a further nine … hospital than in the nearest primary health clinic; and (iv) the respondents ranked the resulting benefits in the domains of …

It is widely observed that many physicians working in public health facilities do not put in the required effort and … financial reward, in providing quality health services. This mix of provider-types poses fundamental challenges in the design of … studies in the health care context of developing countries …