The effects of public investments aimed at directly improving children's health are theoretically ambiguous, since the … influencing the incidence of child health gains from access to piped water in rural India. Using propensity score matching methods …, they find that the prevalence and duration of diarrhea among children under five are significantly less on average for …

after defecation and before feeding children. The treated households own larger water containers which implies that the … health benefits, such as decreased diarrhea incidence of in under-five children, improved child anthropometrics stunting …, underweight and wasting of children due to piped water use. …