Residential water demand has been extensively studied, with the impact of various household characteristics on … examining gender differences in water consumption specifically within single-gender households. To accomplish this, we analyze … involves two main steps: first, the estimation of a Stone-Geary demand function for water consumption for both women and men …

We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …