Since October 2014, the Government of India has worked towards a goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019 through … the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). In June 2014, we reported the results of a survey of rural sanitation behaviour in north … India. Here, we report results from a late 2018 survey that revisited households from the 2014 survey in four states: Bihar …

How much did rural sanitation in India change under the five years of the Swacch Bharat Mission? The best nationally … representative statistics on sanitation in India have long come from the Demographic and Health Surveys, known as the National Family … and Health Surveys in India. The fifth round, conducted in 2019 and 2020, was interrupted by the pandemic, but limited …

exposure, unemployment (percent of total labor force), percent of people using at least basic sanitation services, percent of …, for every one unit increase in the kiloton of CO2 emission and in the percent of people using at least basic sanitation … expenditure, high carbon dioxide emission and high percent of people using at least basic sanitation service, had low incidence of …

for age in a semi-urban setting in Northern India. We use instrumental variables to control for endogeneity of sanitation … impediment to human capital development. Specifically, we examine the effects of sanitation coverage and usage on child height … usage coverage. We find that sanitation coverage plays a significant and positive role in height growth during the first …