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 …

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 …