2021
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/58sdf
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Sanitation and Marriage Markets in India: Evidence from the Total Sanitation Campaign

Abstract: This paper analyses the marriage decisions of men and women, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation within the living arrangement, in rural India. We exploit district and time variation from the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) which increased sanitation by 6.6 percent among households with marriage eligible children and generated an exogenous increase in the composition of households with sanitation. Using data from the Indian Human Development household survey (IHDS) and district level census, we… Show more

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