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Trial reportHealth economics2025

Behavioral Adaptation to Improved Environmental Quality: Evidence From a Sanitation Intervention.

Lisa Cameron, An Huang, Paulo Santos, Milan Thomas

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Health economics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lisa CameronMelbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7539-2198
An HuangSchool of Economics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5567-1432
Paulo SantosDepartment of Economics, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.
Milan ThomasEconomic Research and Development Impact Department, Asian Development Bank, Mandaluyong, Philippines.

Funding

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian GovernmentUnited States Agency for International DevelopmentWorld Bank
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper investigates behavioral adaptation to local improvements in environmental quality. Using exogenous variation in village sanitation coverage generated by the randomised allocation of financial incentives to latrine construction in Lao PDR, we find that the generalized adoption of improved sanitation led to significant reductions in the practice of boiling water for drinking. Our analysis suggests that this change is likely a behavioral response to a reduction in the health benefits associated with treating water, which decline and eventually become negligible as local adoption of improved sanitation increases. Estimates of the value of time savings associated with the reduction in water boiling suggest that this adaptation is an additional important benefit of sanitation investments, most of which likely accrues to girls and women.

Indexed as

SanitationToilet FacilitiesAdultFemaleHumansLaosMaleWater Supplyfirewood collectionheight‐for‐ageWASHwater boiling

Identifiers

PMID40682803
PMCPMC12496022

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