Achieving the ‘good life’: Why some people want latrines in rural Benin

Jenkins, Marion W.; Curtis, Val

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.04.036

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“…The gender variable is also not statistically significant. Results from Jenkins and Curtis (2005) and Santos et al (2011) indicate otherwise. Women are more likely to adopt better sanitation practices than men due to perceived benefits of greater dignity and safety.…”

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“…We estimate a logit model, controlling for various household characteristics, namely gender, age, religion/caste, area, institution, and geography which are proxies for cultural differences in a vast country like India. Gender Jenkins and Curtis (2005) and Santos et al (2011) argue that since there is an element of safety and dignity associated with it, women are more likely to adopt a toilet in comparison with their male counterparts. Age Santos et al (2011) find younger respondents in Salvador and Brazil prefer to have toilets in comparison with their older cohorts.…”

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Demand for household sanitation in India using NFHS-3 data

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India has the highest number of people defecating in the open, and the Indian Government is trying to eradicate by constructing toilets for its citizens. This paper is about whether the government is likely to succeed in its cleanliness drive mission by a supply-side policy. We examine the household preference and other the factors leading to open defecation in India. We examine preference for having a toilet in the household over the preference of other household durable goods. Our results suggest toilets get a lower preference-ranked 12, out of 21 different types of consumer durables we investigate. The results also indicate a strong case for imparting education and public awareness, especially, among the female cohort. We find the odds of having toilets in a household with an educated woman (18 years of schooling) is 3.1 times more than a household with illiterate or preschool educated women. Among other factors households living in urban areas are 19 times more likely to have toilets in comparison with their rural counterparts.

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Demand for household sanitation in India using NFHS-3 data

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“…Non-Hindu households are less likely to defecate in the open, but Table 3 shows that they also have more assets, are less educated, and are less likely to have infrastructure like electricity and piped water, on average. These factors are believed to be linked to latrine adoption (Duflo et al, 2015; Jenkins & Curtis, 2005; O’Connell, 2014; O’Reilly & Louis, 2014; Routray et al, 2015), and thus should be controlled for in some way.…”

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Sanitation and Religion in South Asia: What Accounts for Differences across Countries?

Vyas

Spears

2018

The Journal of Development Studies

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Exposure to open defecation has serious consequences for child mortality, health, and human capital development. South Asia has the highest rates of open defecation worldwide, and although the incidence declines as household income rises, differences across South Asian countries are not explained by differences in per capita income. The rate of open defecation in sub-national regions of Bangladesh, India and Nepal is highly correlated with the fraction of the population that identifies as Hindu, in part because certain rituals of purity and pollution discourage having latrines in close proximity to one’s home. Almost all open defecation occurs in rural areas, and this paper estimates how much the rate could be reduced if rural households in regions that have a higher fraction of Hindus, where open defecation is still common, altered their behaviour to reflect that of non-Hindu households in regions that are predominantly non-Hindu, where the rate of open defecation is much lower. Using nonparametric reweighting methods, this paper projects that rural open defecation in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal could be reduced to rates of between 6 and 8 per cent, compared to the prevailing level of 65 per cent.

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“…However, the issue still needs to be tackled. The particular issue of latrines affects several key dimensions of the human being: the spread of infectious disease, the quality of the immediate environment, his/her dignity, and, therefore more widely, quality of life (Jenkins and Curtis, 2005).…”

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“…Authors generally start from a collection of data obtained through household surveys, then they analyze the demand or the determinants of household choices in water access (see, for instance, Ahmad et al, 2005;Briand et al, 2009a;Briand et al, 2009b;Briand and Laré, 2013;Nauges and Strand, 2007;and Nauges and Whittington, 2009). Others analyze what motivates attitudes and preferences in terms of latrines and sanitation (Jenkins and Curtis, 2005;Whittington et al, 1993Whittington et al, , 2012 Another approach is the use of the hedonic pricing method (HPM) (Rosen, 1974). It has seen important development in the field of environmental and natural resources economics because of its ability to measure, from observed behaviors, values that households allocate to various amenities.…”

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The impact of water and sanitation access on housing values: The case of Dapaong. Togo

Choumert¹,

Kéré²,

Laré³

2014

Proceedings of the 21st Annual European Real Estate Society Conference

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Avertissement :Les commentaires et analyses développés n'engagent que leurs auteurs qui restent seuls responsables des erreurs et insuffisances. The international community has made a commitment that aims to halve, by 2015, the number of people without access to safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation systems. In Togo, the government struggles to provide the population with access to water and sanitation, despite a proactive policy. We argue that a connection to safe water and sanitation increases housing values. Using collected data from the city of Dapaong, we develop a hedonic price model to capture the relationship between housing values and their characteristics. Our results support the need to accompany any investment in access to water and sanitation with real estate policies, so that the poorest households remain beneficiaries of the pro-poor policies.

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Achieving the ‘good life’: Why some people want latrines in rural Benin

Cited by 228 publications

References 9 publications

Demand for household sanitation in India using NFHS-3 data

Demand for household sanitation in India using NFHS-3 data

Sanitation and Religion in South Asia: What Accounts for Differences across Countries?

The impact of water and sanitation access on housing values: The case of Dapaong. Togo

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