Village Sanitation and Children's Human Capital : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment by the Maharashtra Government
Open defecation is exceptionally widespread in India, a county with puzzlingly high rates of child stunting. This paper reports a randomized controlled trial of a village-level sanitation program, implemented in one district by the government of Ma...
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okr-10986-160142021-04-23T14:03:27Z Village Sanitation and Children's Human Capital : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment by the Maharashtra Government Hammer, Jeffrey Spears, Dean BASIC SANITATION BEHAVIOR CHANGE BULLETIN CHILD HEALTH CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD STUNTING COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CURATIVE HEALTH CARE DEFECATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIARRHEA DIARRHEAL DISEASES DIARRHOEA DISEASE DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY ECONOMIC STATUS EPIDEMIOLOGY FAMILY HEALTH GENDER BIAS GLOBAL POVERTY GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS HANDWASHING HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS HEALTH EFFECTS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH POLICY HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD LATRINES HUMAN BIOLOGY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN WELFARE IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFANTS INFECTION INFECTIONS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY INTERVENTION LABOR MARKET LATRINE CONSTRUCTION LATRINES MALNUTRITION MEDICAL CARE MEDICINE MODERNIZATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL STATUS PATHOGENS POLICY CONCERN POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLICY RESPONSE POOR HEALTH POPULATION DENSITY POSTNEONATAL MORTALITY PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH PROGRAM RURAL AREAS RURAL DISTRICT SANITARY ENVIRONMENT SANITATION SANITATION PROMOTION SERIES OF MEETINGS SEX SOCIAL MOBILIZATION SPILLOVER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TOILETS TREATMENT UNDERNUTRITION URBAN AREAS URBAN POPULATION USE OF LATRINES VACCINE VISION WATER QUALITY WATER SUPPLIES WATER SUPPLY WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG CHILDREN Open defecation is exceptionally widespread in India, a county with puzzlingly high rates of child stunting. This paper reports a randomized controlled trial of a village-level sanitation program, implemented in one district by the government of Maharashtra. The program caused a large but plausible average increase in child height (95 percent confidence interval [0.04 to 0.61] standard deviations), which is an important marker of human capital. The results demonstrate sanitation externalities: an effect even on children in households that did not adopt latrines. Unusually, surveyors also collected data in districts where the government planned but ultimately did not conduct an experiment, permitting analysis of the importance of the set eligible for randomization. 2013-10-02T17:02:26Z 2013-10-02T17:02:26Z 2013-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/08/18125015/village-sanitation-childrens-human-capital-evidence-randomized-experiment-maharashtra-government World Bank, Washington, DC http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16014 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6580 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research South Asia India |
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BASIC SANITATION BEHAVIOR CHANGE BULLETIN CHILD HEALTH CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD STUNTING COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CURATIVE HEALTH CARE DEFECATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIARRHEA DIARRHEAL DISEASES DIARRHOEA DISEASE DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY ECONOMIC STATUS EPIDEMIOLOGY FAMILY HEALTH GENDER BIAS GLOBAL POVERTY GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS HANDWASHING HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS HEALTH EFFECTS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH POLICY HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD LATRINES HUMAN BIOLOGY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN WELFARE IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFANTS INFECTION INFECTIONS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY INTERVENTION LABOR MARKET LATRINE CONSTRUCTION LATRINES MALNUTRITION MEDICAL CARE MEDICINE MODERNIZATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL STATUS PATHOGENS POLICY CONCERN POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLICY RESPONSE POOR HEALTH POPULATION DENSITY POSTNEONATAL MORTALITY PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH PROGRAM RURAL AREAS RURAL DISTRICT SANITARY ENVIRONMENT SANITATION SANITATION PROMOTION SERIES OF MEETINGS SEX SOCIAL MOBILIZATION SPILLOVER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TOILETS TREATMENT UNDERNUTRITION URBAN AREAS URBAN POPULATION USE OF LATRINES VACCINE VISION WATER QUALITY WATER SUPPLIES WATER SUPPLY WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG CHILDREN |
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BASIC SANITATION BEHAVIOR CHANGE BULLETIN CHILD HEALTH CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD STUNTING COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CURATIVE HEALTH CARE DEFECATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIARRHEA DIARRHEAL DISEASES DIARRHOEA DISEASE DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY ECONOMIC STATUS EPIDEMIOLOGY FAMILY HEALTH GENDER BIAS GLOBAL POVERTY GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS HANDWASHING HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS HEALTH EFFECTS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH POLICY HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD LATRINES HUMAN BIOLOGY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN WELFARE IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFANTS INFECTION INFECTIONS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY INTERVENTION LABOR MARKET LATRINE CONSTRUCTION LATRINES MALNUTRITION MEDICAL CARE MEDICINE MODERNIZATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL STATUS PATHOGENS POLICY CONCERN POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLICY RESPONSE POOR HEALTH POPULATION DENSITY POSTNEONATAL MORTALITY PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH PROGRAM RURAL AREAS RURAL DISTRICT SANITARY ENVIRONMENT SANITATION SANITATION PROMOTION SERIES OF MEETINGS SEX SOCIAL MOBILIZATION SPILLOVER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TOILETS TREATMENT UNDERNUTRITION URBAN AREAS URBAN POPULATION USE OF LATRINES VACCINE VISION WATER QUALITY WATER SUPPLIES WATER SUPPLY WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG CHILDREN Hammer, Jeffrey Spears, Dean Village Sanitation and Children's Human Capital : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment by the Maharashtra Government |
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South Asia India |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6580 |
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Open defecation is exceptionally
widespread in India, a county with puzzlingly high rates of
child stunting. This paper reports a randomized controlled
trial of a village-level sanitation program, implemented in
one district by the government of Maharashtra. The program
caused a large but plausible average increase in child
height (95 percent confidence interval [0.04 to 0.61]
standard deviations), which is an important marker of human
capital. The results demonstrate sanitation externalities:
an effect even on children in households that did not adopt
latrines. Unusually, surveyors also collected data in
districts where the government planned but ultimately did
not conduct an experiment, permitting analysis of the
importance of the set eligible for randomization. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Hammer, Jeffrey Spears, Dean |
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Hammer, Jeffrey Spears, Dean |
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Hammer, Jeffrey |
| title |
Village Sanitation and Children's Human Capital : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment by the Maharashtra Government |
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Village Sanitation and Children's Human Capital : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment by the Maharashtra Government |
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Village Sanitation and Children's Human Capital : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment by the Maharashtra Government |
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Village Sanitation and Children's Human Capital : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment by the Maharashtra Government |
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Village Sanitation and Children's Human Capital : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment by the Maharashtra Government |
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village sanitation and children's human capital : evidence from a randomized experiment by the maharashtra government |
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2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/08/18125015/village-sanitation-childrens-human-capital-evidence-randomized-experiment-maharashtra-government http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16014 |
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