Water Management and Child Health: a Cross-Country Comparison from 1950 to 2010

Does piped water improve adolescent health? Empirical evidence from rural China

“…(2011) hold different opinions and find that APW could reduce the mortality rate of children less than 5 years in 31 countries in sub‐Saharan Africa. Baguma (2017) concludes that water management could reduce infant mortality in 33 countries from Western Europe and Southeast Asia between 1950 and 2010. Another study, based on survey data from 74 countries from 1986 to 2013, finds that only improving both water sources and sanitation facilities simultaneously could reduce the risk of diarrhea in children under age 5 (Fuller et al., 2015).…”

“…Although previous studies have analyzed the relationship between piped water and child health, most studies have applied common models to identify the causal relationship between the two and not specifically considered endogenous issues in the model design. For example, general logistic regression and non‐linear regression modeling are utilized to estimate the effect of piped water on child health (Baguma, 2017; Golovaty et al., 2009). Unobservable factors could simultaneously affect both child health and household's access to clean water, resulting in the estimation of bias based on these models.…”