Sanitation and Religion in South Asia: What Accounts for Differences across Countries?
Exposure to open defecation has serious consequences for child mortality, health, and human capital development. South Asia has the highest rates of open defecation worldwide, and although the incidence declines as household income rises, differences across South Asian countries are not explained by...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 54; no. 11; pp. 2119 - 2136 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=131178203&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 131178203 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00220388 JDS jtl: Journal of Development Studies issn: 00220388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2018 vid: 54 iid: 11 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 131178203 10.1080/00220388.2018.1469742 ppf: 2119 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T db: hlh ui: 131178203 – @attributes: type: P db: hlh ui: 131178203 tig: atl: Sanitation and Religion in South Asia: What Accounts for Differences across Countries? aug: au: Vyas, Sangita Spears, Dean affil: Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA su: South Asia Rural sanitation Child mortality Public health Defecation Religion & the environment Per capita sug: subj: Rural sanitation Child mortality Public health South Asia Health and Welfare Funds Defecation Religion & the environment Per capita ab: Exposure to open defecation has serious consequences for child mortality, health, and human capital development. South Asia has the highest rates of open defecation worldwide, and although the incidence declines as household income rises, differences across South Asian countries are not explained by differences in per capita income. The rate of open defecation in sub-national regions of Bangladesh, India and Nepal is highly correlated with the fraction of the population that identifies as Hindu, in part because certain rituals of purity and pollution discourage having latrines in close proximity to one's home. Almost all open defecation occurs in rural areas, and this paper estimates how much the rate could be reduced if rural households in regions that have a higher fraction of Hindus, where open defecation is still common, altered their behaviour to reflect that of non-Hindu households in regions that are predominantly non-Hindu, where the rate of open defecation is much lower. Using nonparametric reweighting methods, this paper projects that rural open defecation in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal could be reduced to rates of between 6 and 8 per cent, compared to the prevailing level of 65 per cent. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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