Documents et rapports
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What doesn't kill you makes you poorer : adult wages and the early-life disease environment in India (anglais)
A growing literature documents links between early-life health and human capital, and between human capital and adult wages. Although most of this literature has focused on developed countries, economists...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7121 Date du document: 1 novembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lawson, Nicholas,Spears,Dean Edwin
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Place and child health : the interaction of population density and sanitation in developing countries (anglais)
A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance of dense settlement for child mortality and child height is moderated by exposure...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7124 Date du document: 1 novembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Coffey, Diane,Haque,Sabrina Sharmin,Hathi,Payal Jayant,Pant, Lovey,Spears,Dean Edwin
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Scaling up rural sanitation : investing in the next generation - growing tall and smart with toilets : stopping open defecation improves children's height in Cambodia (anglais)
Open defecation within a community harms the physical and cognitive development of children, even children living in households that use toilets themselves. Frequently digesting feces due to poor sanitation...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 85190 Date du document: 1 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kov,Phyrum,Smets,Susanna,Spears,Dean Edwin,Vyas,Sangita
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Effects of early-life exposure to sanitation on childhood cognitive skills : evidence from India's total sanitation campaign (anglais)
Early life health and net nutrition shape childhood and adult cognitive skills and human capital. In poor countries -- and especially in South Asia -- widespread open defecation without making use of a...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6659 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lamba,Sneha,Spears,Dean Edwin
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Village sanitation and children's human capital : evidence from a randomized experiment by the Maharashtra government (anglais)
Open defecation is exceptionally widespread in India, a county with puzzlingly high rates of child stunting. This paper reports a randomized controlled trial of a village-level sanitation program, implemented...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6580 Date du document: 1 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hammer, Jeffrey,Spears,Dean Edwin
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Coming up short without sanitation : a community sanitation program by the Indian government helped children grow taller and healthier in the State of Maharashtra (anglais)
Most people living in rural Indian villages defecate openly outside, without using a toilet or latrine. In 2004, as a supplement to its ongoing Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC), the government of Maharashtra...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 79773 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Spears,Dean Edwin
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How much international variation in child height can sanitation explain ? (anglais)
Physical height is an important economic variable reflecting health and human capital. Puzzlingly, however, differences in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6351 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Spears,Dean Edwin