Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality

By Sebastian Galiani, Paul J. Gertler, Ernesto Schargrodsky. Journal of Political Economy, 2004

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Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Ocean Engineering, Urban Studies

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Assessing the impact of infrastructure quality on firm productivity in Africa: cross-country comparisons based on investment climate surveys from 1999 to 2005 (2010, background): “Another way that better infrastructure might increase labor productivity is through improvements in health and education, making existing human capital more efficient, and promoting successive investments in human capital (Galiani et al., 2005).”
Providing Safe Water: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations (2010, background): “…unaware of randomized evaluations of municipal treatment, but well-identified non-randomized studies by Cutler and Miller (2005) find large health benefits from water treatment in the United States, and Galiani et al. (2005) find major health benefits from extension of municipal water in Argentina.”
Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment (2010, positive): “…control group and analyzing panel data using a differencein-differences approach is a robust approach (Smith and Todd, 2005) that has been used in many recent program evaluations (e.g., Shadish, Cook, and Campbell, 2002; Villalonga, 2004; Galiani, Gertler, and Schargrodsky, 2005; Qian, 2007).”
The Economics of Managing Scarce Water Resources (2010, background): “Regarding the effect on poor households, significant reductions in child mortality were achieved through the privatization of piped water supply in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Galiani et al. 2005).”
Public Health Investments and the Infant Mortality Gap: Evidence from Federal Sanitation Interventions on U.S. Indian Reservations (2006, background): “Galiani et al. (2005) find an 8 percent reduction in child mortality in parts of Argentina that privatized sanitation in the 1990s.”
Privatisation Results: Private Sector Participation in Water Services After 15 Years (2006, methodology): “Using a rigorous econometric method, Galiani et al. (2005) argue, for the case of Argentina, that not only were © The Author 2006.”
The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2011, neutral): “d at time t (t=2004-05, 2007-08).(18)’(19) The binary variable D07t takes a value 1 for year 2007-08 and 0 for year 2004-05—D07t is the time effect common to all districts.”
Seasonal Effects of Water Quality: The Hidden Costs of the Green Revolution to Infant and Child Health in India (2014, background): “Height-for-age z-score measures stunting, and is considered an indicator of long-term health status that fluctuates little in response to short-term changes in diet.”