Better Access to Water, Better Children's Health: A Mirage?

Patricia Augier, Marion Dovis () and Charles Lai-Tong
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Patricia Augier: GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Charles Lai-Tong: GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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Abstract: In Egypt, diarrhoeal diseases remain the main cause of mortality among young children, although the percentage of households with an "improved" access to water, according to the definition used by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is very high. This article seeks to shed light on this paradox, by better identifying the populations affected by problems of access to water, taking into account three dimensions—the time it takes to access a source of water, daily cut-offs and behaviour with respect to storage—and by applying alternative matching estimators to estimate the effects of defective water access on child diarrhoea. It is found that children whose families are identified as having a water access problem through the use of broader-based definitions have a greater likelihood of contracting diarrhoeal diseases. This article, thus, shows that the mortality of children in Egypt could be further reduced by improving households' access to water.

Keywords: Economie; quantitative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-01
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Published in Oxford Development Studies, 2016, 44 (1), pp.70--92. ⟨10.1080/13600818.2015.1064101⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2015.1064101

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