Almost nine million children under five years of age die every year. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading … for children under five years of age in India. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM), we fi nd that access to improved … sanitation reduces the risk of contracting diarrhea by 2.2 percentage points. There is considerable heterogeneity in the impacts …

This article's main objective is to present an overview of the financing of public basic sanitation services in Brazil …, based on the database of debentures issued in Brazil, describing the categories and highlighted variables by infrastructure … sector, in addition to the focus on drinking water and sanitation. The importance of debentures in the current set of …

components of a country’s infrastructure to access international markets. I provide a framework to jointly estimate the quality … international and internal trade with port and road infrastructure to assess the relative importance of ports versus roads in … shaping international market access, and estimate it using a novel transaction-level export dataset for India. A key …

I evaluate India's transition from an inward-oriented development strategy to greater participation in the world … economy. While tariff rates have decreased significantly over the past decade, India is still one of the more autarkic … countries. Despite improvement over the past in export performance, India continues to lag behind its South- and East Asian …

specific factors. Using cross-sectional health survey data for India, we employ the propensity score method to match children … belonging to different treatment groups, defined by water types and sanitation facilities, with children in a control group. We …In this paper we examine the impacts on child health, using diarrhoea as the health outcome, (amongst children living …

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the … most hard-hit cities completing 1.2 fewer years. Second, these children were about half inches (one centimeter) shorter and …

and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …) Vocabulary, (3) Mathematics, (4) Reading and (5) Comprehension. We find that while left-handed children have a significantly … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …