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Women : Walking and Waiting for Water - The Time Value of Public Water Supply
Gross, Elena; Günther, Isabel; Schipper, Youdi - 2014
Public funding of water supply infrastructure in developing countries is often justified by the expectation that the time spent on water collection significantly decreases, leading to increased labor force participation of women. In this study we empirically test this hypothesis by applying a...
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Access to Water, Time Allocation and Income in Rural India
Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P - 2014
In this paper we show that investments to improve the supply and management of water reduce the time spent in fetching water by both men and women, which in turn will lead to a reallocation of the time saved to productive activities, and result in increased incomes. Using the national ARIS/REDS...
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The Gender Education Gap in China : The Power of Water
Maimaiti, Yasheng - 2009
have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763938
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The impact of better access to improved water sources on health, schooling, and water collection of girls and boys in rural Zambia
Shimamura, Yasuharu; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Taguchi, Shimpei - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 9, pp. 1750-1771
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The implications of water and electricity supply for the time allocation of women in rural Ghana
Costa, Joana; Hailu, Degol; Silva, Elydia; Tsukada, Raquel - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933469
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The gendered effects of investing in physical and social infrastructure
Small, Sarah F.; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 171 (2023), pp. 1-17
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Agricultural Activities, Water, and Gender in Tajikistan's Rural Sector : A Social Assessment of Konibodom, Bobojon Ghafurov, and Yovon
World Bank - 2009
. The main SA objectives were to understand how prevailing structures of water provision, land reforms, and gender relations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247151
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Effectiveness of Large Scale Water and Sanitation Interventions : The One Million Initiative in Mozambique
Elbers, Chris; Godfrey, Samuel; Gunning, Jan Willem; … - 2012
The One Million Initiative aims to give one million people in rural Mozambique access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation by constructing new water points and providing sanitation training. We use panel survey data for 1600 households to analyze the health impact of the Initiative....
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The gender education gap in China : the power of water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, William S. - 2009
have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural … areas. -- Education ; gender gaps ; menarche ; water ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830743
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Who benefits from piped water in the house? : empirical evidence from a gendered analysis in India
Sedai, Ashish Kumar - 2021
juxtaposition of water infrastructure and gender differences at the household level. We use spatiotemporal data from the largest … gender disaggregated human development survey in India (2005-2012) and carry out econometric analyses using individual fixed … piped drinking water (IPDW) on employment and earnings by gender, the self-reported health of women, the prevalence of …
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