期刊
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
卷 48, 期 -, 页码 135-148出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.03.003
关键词
Sanitation; Health; Experiment; External validity; India
资金
- Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the World Bank
- WSP
- Government of Maharashtra
Over a billion people worldwide defecate in the open, with important consequences for early-life health and human capital accumulation in developing countries. We report a cluster randomized controlled trial of a village sanitation intervention conducted in rural Maharashtra, India designed to identify an effect of village sanitation on average child height, an outcome of increasing importance to economists. We find an effect of approximately 0.3 height-for-age standard deviations, which is consistent with observations and hypotheses in economic and health literatures. We further exploit details of the planning and implementation of the experiment to study treatment heterogeneity and external validity. (C) 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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