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transmission pathways. Such efforts paid off and led to significant breakthroughs in drinking water supplies and sanitation … framework for understanding complex environmental health issues arising from water supplies and sanitation practices in Africa …, meanings, perceptions, spirituality etc. in determining water and sanitation practices of individuals and groups with a …
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services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …
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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 …
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in households) with access to different types of water and sanitation facilities, and from socio-economic and child … belonging to different treatment groups, defined by water types and sanitation facilities, with children in a control group. We …
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negatively associated. Aid volatility is associated with better outcomes in sanitation, water and infant mortality, contrary to … equation model, this paper provides an analysis of the effects of the volume and volatility of aid on education, health, water … and sanitation outcomes, taking also into account the institutions related to public service delivery, including freedom …
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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 … sanitation). We also find that effects are stronger during the fetal period (2nd trimester of gestation), for children born …
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Die Bedeutung von Emotionen und Affekten bei ökonomischen Entscheidungen wird seit mehreren Jahren in der ökonomischen Literatur diskutiert (z. B. Rabin, 1998). Eine Erklärung der empirischen Evidenz in diesem Bereich, die über eine bloß phänomenologische Ebene hinausgeht, verlangt eine...
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This research examines the strength of people's ties with close neighbours and the sensitivity thereof to changes in residential mobility, access to modes of public and private transport, and changes in the availability of modern communications technologies using the German Socio-economic Panel...
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Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...
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The German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) offers the rare opportunity to look at patterns of given names amongst a representative sample of more than 50,000 people born since 1900. This article develops an exemplary picture of typical frequency distributions for given names and their...
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