Premium
The Impact of Access to Water on Child Health in S enegal
Author(s) -
Novak Lindsey
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12094
Subject(s) - propensity score matching , matching (statistics) , child health , water source , environmental health , diarrhea , incidence (geometry) , multinomial distribution , business , public economics , demographic economics , actuarial science , medicine , economics , water resource management , environmental science , econometrics , pediatrics , mathematics , geometry , pathology
This paper addresses the impact of access to water on child health in S enegal by using multinomial propensity score matching to estimate the impact of five water sources on the incidence of diarrhea in children. This information will facilitate a more informed cost‐benefit analysis when implementing water projects. Much research categorizes water sources into a binary variable: “improved” or “unimproved”. According to the findings of this paper, this is an erroneous restriction, as I find heterogeneous impacts of water sources on child health. In fact, water sources that are generally believed to be superior are not significantly different, and some are significantly less effective in decreasing incidence of diarrhea.