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Ebert, Cara; Heesemann, Esther Luise; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2020

The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early disadvantages in health and mental development. We distribute...

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Improving children health and cognition : evidence from school-based nutrition intervention in India

Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018

We present experimental evidence on the impact of delivering double-fortified salt (DFS), salt fortified with iron and iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "mid-day meal" on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of primary school children. We conducted a field...

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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions - Working Paper 295

Glassman, Amanda; McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel - 2012

Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...

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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Effects and Solutions

Glassman, Amanda L.; Silverman, Rachel; McQueston, Katherine - 2012

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Measuring the affordability of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene services : a new approach

Andrés, Luis; Brocklehurst, Clarissa; Grabinsky, Jonathan - In: Water economics and policy 6 (2020) 3, pp. 1-28

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Sanitation, financial incentives and health spillovers : A cluster randomised trial

Cameron, Lisa Ann; Santos, Paulo; Thomas, Milan; … - In: Journal of health economics 77 (2021), pp. 1-13

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The role of social identity in improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services : evidence from Nepal

Balasubramanya, Soumya; Stifel, David; Alvi, Muzna; … - In: Development policy review 40 (2022) 4, pp. 1-15

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Bringing WASH into the water-energy-food nexus in humanitarian settings

Srivastava, Shilpi; Allouche, Jeremy; Price, Roz; … - 2022

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Role of WASH and Agency in Health : a study of isolated rural communities in Nilgiris and Jalpaiguri

Ramani, Shyama V. - 2017

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Economic Costs of Inadequate Water and Sanitation: South Tarawa, Kiribati

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

The inadequate water supply and sanitation situation in South Tarawa has contributed to high rates of water … supply and sanitation infrastructure and ongoing operations and maintenance in South Tarawa, in part, as a result of low cost … estimate the total economic costs associated with inadequate water and sanitation services in South Tarawa. …

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