Worldwide, India has the highest number of people defecating in the open. In an attempt to reduce number of open … defecation, a supply side initiative is underway. In 2014-2015, Government of India, constructed 8 million toilets. However, an … states in India. We find residents of North-Eastern states are more likely to use toilets. We further investigate factors …

In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by …

a pilot school-based handwashing, safe water, and sanitation program in Chennai, India. Our content analysis identified …Basic sanitation and hygiene can prevent roughly a million deaths a year. This study examines the rapid prototyping of … commitment), factors outside the class but within the school (School administration and support and Hygiene and sanitation …

-plot sanitation systems potentially offer a solution to the sanitaryneeds of the urban poor. Nevertheless, commonly held assumptions … appropriateness anduser acceptability of on-plot sanitation options. The thesis contributes to an improvedunderstanding of the context …, Mozambique and India areincluded in the thesis in order to permit sampling of key latrine types used internationally.The thesis …

This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … direct benefit a household receives when moving from open to fixed-point defecation or from unimproved sanitation to improved … sanitation, and an external benefit (externality) produced by the neighborhood's access to sanitation infrastructure. The paper …

children under five years of age in India. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM), we find that access to improved sanitation … use the newly available data set DLHS-3 to quantify the impact of access to improved sanitation on diarrheal morbidity for … improved sanitation. We neither find statistically signicant treatment effects for children in low or middle socioeconomic …