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I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that … sanitation, on the one hand, and child outcomes like the incidence of diarrhea or child development, on the other. These papers … the extension of coverage of water and sanitation infrastructure, although the evidence is limited to child mortality …
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combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies – Swacch Bharat or ‘Clean India …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …
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We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation … within the marital living arrangement. We demonstrate that the Government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) changed marriage …
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We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study … how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We … we document influence borrowing and investments: uptake of the sanitation loan is higher among households where the wife …
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coordination failure. Focusing on shared sanitation facilities for slum residents in two major Indian cities, we randomly allocate …
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This paper presents the results of a quasi-experimental study using information collected through a survey conducted in peri-urban areas of Metropolitan Lima between October and November 2021. The survey was applied to households residing close to and on both sides of the geographic boundary of...
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Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...
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