younger than age five years, using unique cross-sectional data from the 2012-13 Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey … the World Health Organization reference population. The results of multiple probit regression models indicate a 6 percent …

Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Prolonged drinking of such water risks development of diseases and therefore … has implications for children's cognitive and psychological development. This study examines the effect of arsenic …

Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Prolonged drinking of such water risks development of diseases and therefore … has implications for children's cognitive and psychological development. This study examines the effect of arsenic …

This paper investigates the effect of drinking arsenic contaminated water on mental health. Drinking water with an … unsafe arsenic level for a prolonged period can lead to arsenicosis, which includes symptoms such as black spots on the skin … and subsequent illnesses such as various cancers. We collected household survey data from Bangladesh, a country with wide …

This paper investigates the effect of drinking arsenic contaminated water on mental health. Drinking water with an … household survey data from Bangladesh, we construct several measures for arsenic contamination that include the actual arsenic … health. To account for potential endogeneity of water source, we take advantage of the quasi-randomness of arsenic …