Dirty hands on troubled waters: Sanitation, access to water and child health in Ethiopia

Manalew, Wondimu S.; Tennekoon, Vidhura

doi:10.1111/rode.12604

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“…Using an RCT coupled with a lab‐in‐the‐filed social network experiment in urban Dakar, Deutschmann et al (2021) show that the adoption of sanitary technology among neighbors results in similar behavior among other households. Other studies have explored the health implications of water access (Dong et al, 2021; Kumar & Vollmer, 2013; Manalew & Tennekoon, 2019; Novak, 2014) and sanitation externalities from dirty drains (Dayal et al, 2022).…”

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Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?

Paudel

2023

Review Development Economics

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This article exploits a plausibly exogenous variation in peak ground acceleration to evaluate the impact of the 2015 earthquake on water and sanitation services among affected households in Nepal. Estimates from a difference‐in‐differences research design show that the severity of the earthquake is associated with a 9.4 percentage point decline in the likelihood of washing hands, a 6.63 percentage point decline in the likelihood of using water filters and an 18.16 percentage point decline in the likelihood of using flush to a piped sewer system. These negative effects of seismic shocks on binary indicators of water treatment and toilet services continue to persist even in earthquake‐affected districts where aid for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services was allocated for disbursement. While prospects of leakage in aid distribution across different levels of governance cannot be empirically tested, findings indicate that effective implementation of WASH‐related aid can partially mitigate disaster‐induced adverse outcomes related to water treatment and toilet services.

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Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?

Paudel

2023

Review Development Economics

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“…Yet diarrhea is largely preventable, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children aged under 5 could be avoided each year with cleaner water (World Health Organization, 2019). Whereas there is a relatively long history of evaluations of water supply and sanitation expansions that explore the effects on health indicators, such as diarrhea, anthropometric measures, and mortality in children, they tend to yield mixed findings (Hasan & Gerber, 2016, 2017; Headey & Palloni, 2019; Manalew & Tennekoon, 2019; Novak, 2014).…”

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Direct and indirect effects of a massive piped water expansion on child‐related outcomes

Chong

Galdo

2021

Review Development Economics

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We explore the effects of a massive water supply and sanitation expansion on child mortality, schooling, and child labor in Ecuador. We combine census data with project administrative information to identify treated dwellings. A matching differences‐in‐differences estimator is used to identify treatment effects. We find a child mortality reduction of about 8.1%, an increase in children formal schooling of 1.3%, and a reduction in child labor of 13.7%, all attributable to the intervention. We also find heterogeneous treatment effects suggesting that those in the poorest quartiles benefit the least from the intervention. However, even in the latter case, if a woman had at least primary education, the household may still enjoy benefits.

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The Economic Impacts of Rural Water Supply Infrastructures in Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence from Senegal

Magbondé,

Thiam,

Wagner

2024

Environ Resource Econ

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The paper addresses the often-neglected economic impacts associated with the supply of hydraulic infrastructure in rural and under-serviced communities in developing countries. We rely on a rich panel dataset including 1319 Senegalese rural households collected in 2016 and 2020, during the deployment of the first phase of the Emergency Program for Community Development (PUDC). By combining propensity score matching (PSM), inverse probability weighting, difference-in-differences, and quantile regression, we find that access to piped water improves employment in the agricultural sector but has no significant impact on household expenditures. After controlling for attrition, through PSM, we find that the employment effect operates through access to a greater quantity of water and a reduction in the time women devote to water fetching chores. Moreover, when bundled with complementary infrastructure interventions such as the construction of rural roads, we find that access to water services generates an even higher impact. The quantile analysis shows that non-poor households seem to benefit more from the provided water supply infrastructure compared to poor households. Finally, when comparing the welfare effect of government-led PUDC water supply with that of community-led initiatives, our findings advocate for the widespread implementation of the former for reasons of cost-effectiveness.

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Dirty hands on troubled waters: Sanitation, access to water and child health in Ethiopia

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?

Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?

Direct and indirect effects of a massive piped water expansion on child‐related outcomes

The Economic Impacts of Rural Water Supply Infrastructures in Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence from Senegal

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