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 …

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 …