Community Matters: Heterogeneous Impacts of a Sanitation Intervention

Laura Abramovsky, Britta Augsburg, Melanie Lührmann, Francisco Oteiza and Juan Pablo Rud
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Britta Augsburg: The Institute for Fiscal Studies
Francisco Oteiza: Oslo Economics
Juan Pablo Rud: Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, and IFS

No 210, Working Papers from Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE)

Abstract: Sanitation is at the heart of public health policies in most of the developing world, where around 85% of the population still lack access to safe sanitation. We study the effectiveness of a widely adopted participatory community-level information intervention aimed at improving sanitation. Results from a randomized controlled trial, implemented at scale in rural Nigeria, reveal stark heterogeneity in impacts: the intervention has immediate, strong and lasting effects on sanitation practices in less wealthy communities, realized through increased sanitation investments. In contrast, we find no evidence of impacts among wealthier communities. This suggests that a targetedimplementation of CLTS may increase its effectiveness in improving sanitation. Our findings can be replicated in other contexts, using microdata from evaluations of similar interventions.

Keywords: sanitation; community intervention; randomized controlled trial; Nigeria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I15 I18 O12 O13 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 63 pages
Date: 2023-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-exp and nep-ure
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Journal Article: Community matters: Heterogeneous impacts of a sanitation intervention (2023)
Working Paper: Community Matters: Heterogeneous Impacts of a Sanitation Intervention (2020)
Working Paper: Community matters: heterogenous impacts of a sanitation intervention (2019)
Working Paper: Community matters: heterogenous impacts of a sanitation intervention (2018)
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