ArticleEconomic journal (London, England)2018
Sanitation, Disease Externalities and Anaemia: Evidence From Nepal.
Article in Economic journal (London, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- Anemia in children aged 6-59 months was significantly associated with maternal anemia status in rural Zimbabwe.Food science & nutrition · 2023Article
- Effects of the community-based health planning and services on anemia and acute malnutrition amongst under-fives in Ghana: A comparative study.Journal of public health in Africa · 2023Article
- Childhood and Adolescent Anemia Burden in India: The Way Forward.Indian pediatrics · 2022Article
- Factors associated with early pregnancy anemia in rural Sri Lanka: Does being 'under care' iron out socioeconomic disparities?PloS one · 2022Article
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- Exposure to open defecation can account for the Indian enigma of child height.Journal of development economics · 2020Article
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- Environmental and spatial determinants of enteric pathogen infection in rural Lao People's Democratic Republic: A cross-sectional study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
- Nutrition among children of migrant construction workers in Ahmedabad, India.International journal for equity in health · 2019Article
- Exploring associations between water, sanitation, and anemia through 47 nationally representative demographic and health surveys.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2019Article
- Prevention and Control of Anemia Amongst Children and Adolescents: Theory and Practice in India.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2019Review
- Water, Sanitation, and Child Health: Evidence From Subnational Panel Data in 59 Countries.Demography · 2019Article
- Identifying sociodemographic, programmatic and dietary drivers of anaemia reduction in pregnant Indian women over 10 years.Public health nutrition · 2018Article
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Abstract
Anaemia impairs physical and cognitive development in children and reduces human capital accumulation. The prior economics literature has focused on the role of inadequate nutrition in causing anaemia. This article is the first to show that sanitation, a public good, significantly contributes to preventing anaemia. We identify effects by exploiting rapid and differential improvement in sanitation across regions of Nepal between 2006 and 2011. Within regions over time, cohorts of children exposed to better community sanitation developed higher haemoglobin levels. Our results highlight a previously undocumented externality of open defaecation, which is today practiced by over a billion people worldwide.
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