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...
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2013/08/01
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS6580
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1
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1
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2013/08/01
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Disclosed
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Village sanitation and children's human capital : evidence from a randomized experiment by the Maharashtra government
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Demographic and Health Survey