Trial reportJournal of health economics2016
Village sanitation and child health: Effects and external validity in a randomized field experiment in rural India.
Trial report in Journal of health economics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
46 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions to improve sanitation for preventing diarrhoea.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- An individual-level meta-analysis assessing the impact of community-level sanitation access on child stunting, anemia, and diarrhea: Evidence from DHS and MICS surveys.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2017Pooled it
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- Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India.Journal of health economics · 2017Trial
- Governance, structure, and access: a Bayesian hierarchical analysis of water, sanitation, and hygiene in South Asia.Globalization and health · 2026Article
- Behavioral patterns in latrine use and handwashing in rural western Kenya: Age, time of day, and the role of perceived safety.PloS one · 2026Article
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- Flushing away disease: A one health perspective on sanitation, pathogen transmission, and rural health in China.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Social and Environmental Determinants of Childhood Stunting in Indonesia: National Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2025Article
- Progress in child nutrition outcomes: insights from India's recent experience.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Toilet construction under the Swachh Bharat Mission and infant mortality in India.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The process, outcomes and context of the sanitation change induced by the Swachh Bharat Mission in rural Jharkhand, India.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Patterns in child stunting by age: A cross-sectional study of 94 low- and middle-income countries.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- Growth in milk consumption and reductions in child stunting: Historical evidence from cross-country panel data.Food policy · 2023Article
- Sanitation and marriage markets in India: Evidence from the Total Sanitation Campaign.Journal of development economics · 2023Article
- Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal.Journal of development economics · 2023Article
- The dirty business of eliminating open defecation: The effect of village sanitation on child height from field experiments in four countries.Journal of development economics · 2022Article
- Decomposing inequality of opportunity in child health in Tanzania: The role of access to water and sanitation.Health economics · 2022Article
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Abstract
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.
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