 A micro-based approach to evaluate the effect of water supply on health in UgandaRaymond Frempong (), Lucas Kitzmüller and David Stadelmann World Development, 2021, vol. 145, issue C Abstract: This paper proposes a micro-based approach to investigate the impact of improved water provision on individual health outcomes in rural Uganda. We merge household and individual panel datasets with sub-county level administrative data on water supply projects. Our approach allows us to estimate fixed-effect panel data models which use temporal and spatial variation at the sub-county level as identifying variation. We find evidence that the installation of improved water sources leads to higher reported improved water usage, and shorter water collection times. However, increasing the sub-county rate of improved water sources per capita does not seem to be sufficient to lead to a statistically significant effect in the likelihood of individuals suffering from symptoms of illness associated with inadequate water supply. We argue that our micro-based approach provides a cost-effective means of evaluating development projects. The approach is scalable, i.e. it can be applied to other settings and countries. Keywords: Evaluation; Development projects; Drinking water; Sanitation; Child mortality (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:145:y:2021:i:c:s0305750x21001340 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105522 Access Statistics for this article World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes More articles in World Development from Elsevier |
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