Water Hauling and Girls' School Attendance : Some New Evidence from Ghana
In large parts of the world, a lack of home tap water burdens households as the water must be brought to the house from outside, at great expense in terms of effort and time. This paper studies how such costs affect girls' schooling in Ghana,...
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okr-10986-155852021-04-23T14:03:19Z Water Hauling and Girls' School Attendance : Some New Evidence from Ghana Nauges, Celine Strand, Jon AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT BOREHOLES COMMUNITY MEMBERS CONSTRUCTION DOMESTIC WATER DRINKING WATER HOUSEHOLD CONNECTION HOUSEHOLD ELECTRIFICATION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD WATER HOUSEHOLDS LITRES PER PERSON PER DAY PUBLIC STANDPIPE PUBLIC WELLS PUMPS QUANTITY OF WATER RAINWATER RAINWATER COLLECTION RIVERS RURAL COMMUNITIES SPRING SPRING WATER SURFACE WATER TOILET FACILITIES URBAN AREAS URBAN COMMUNITIES URBAN COMMUNITY WASTEWATER WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT WATER COLLECTION WATER DEFICIT WATER DELIVERY WATER INFRASTRUCTURE WATER PROJECTS WATER QUANTITY WATER SOURCE WATER SOURCES WATER SUPPLY WATER SYSTEM WATER TABLE WATER TREATMENT WELLS In large parts of the world, a lack of home tap water burdens households as the water must be brought to the house from outside, at great expense in terms of effort and time. This paper studies how such costs affect girls' schooling in Ghana, with an analysis based on four rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys. Using Global Positioning System coordinates, it builds an artificial panel of clusters, identifying the closest neighbors within each round. The results indicate a significant negative relation between girls' school attendance and water hauling activity, as a halving of water fetching time increases girls' school attendance by 2.4 percentage points on average, with stronger impacts in rural communities. The results seem to be the first definitive documentation of such a relationship in Africa. They document some of the multiple and wide population benefits of increased tap water access, in Africa and elsewhere. 2013-09-04T17:39:09Z 2013-09-04T17:39:09Z 2013-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/05/17714533/water-hauling-girls-school-attendance-some-new-evidence-ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15585 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6443 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Ghana |
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AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT BOREHOLES COMMUNITY MEMBERS CONSTRUCTION DOMESTIC WATER DRINKING WATER HOUSEHOLD CONNECTION HOUSEHOLD ELECTRIFICATION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD WATER HOUSEHOLDS LITRES PER PERSON PER DAY PUBLIC STANDPIPE PUBLIC WELLS PUMPS QUANTITY OF WATER RAINWATER RAINWATER COLLECTION RIVERS RURAL COMMUNITIES SPRING SPRING WATER SURFACE WATER TOILET FACILITIES URBAN AREAS URBAN COMMUNITIES URBAN COMMUNITY WASTEWATER WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT WATER COLLECTION WATER DEFICIT WATER DELIVERY WATER INFRASTRUCTURE WATER PROJECTS WATER QUANTITY WATER SOURCE WATER SOURCES WATER SUPPLY WATER SYSTEM WATER TABLE WATER TREATMENT WELLS |
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AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT BOREHOLES COMMUNITY MEMBERS CONSTRUCTION DOMESTIC WATER DRINKING WATER HOUSEHOLD CONNECTION HOUSEHOLD ELECTRIFICATION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD WATER HOUSEHOLDS LITRES PER PERSON PER DAY PUBLIC STANDPIPE PUBLIC WELLS PUMPS QUANTITY OF WATER RAINWATER RAINWATER COLLECTION RIVERS RURAL COMMUNITIES SPRING SPRING WATER SURFACE WATER TOILET FACILITIES URBAN AREAS URBAN COMMUNITIES URBAN COMMUNITY WASTEWATER WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT WATER COLLECTION WATER DEFICIT WATER DELIVERY WATER INFRASTRUCTURE WATER PROJECTS WATER QUANTITY WATER SOURCE WATER SOURCES WATER SUPPLY WATER SYSTEM WATER TABLE WATER TREATMENT WELLS Nauges, Celine Strand, Jon Water Hauling and Girls' School Attendance : Some New Evidence from Ghana |
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In large parts of the world, a lack of
home tap water burdens households as the water must be
brought to the house from outside, at great expense in terms
of effort and time. This paper studies how such costs affect
girls' schooling in Ghana, with an analysis based on
four rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys. Using
Global Positioning System coordinates, it builds an
artificial panel of clusters, identifying the closest
neighbors within each round. The results indicate a
significant negative relation between girls' school
attendance and water hauling activity, as a halving of water
fetching time increases girls' school attendance by 2.4
percentage points on average, with stronger impacts in rural
communities. The results seem to be the first definitive
documentation of such a relationship in Africa. They
document some of the multiple and wide population benefits
of increased tap water access, in Africa and elsewhere. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Nauges, Celine Strand, Jon |
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Nauges, Celine Strand, Jon |
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Nauges, Celine |
| title |
Water Hauling and Girls' School Attendance : Some New Evidence from Ghana |
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Water Hauling and Girls' School Attendance : Some New Evidence from Ghana |
| title_full |
Water Hauling and Girls' School Attendance : Some New Evidence from Ghana |
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Water Hauling and Girls' School Attendance : Some New Evidence from Ghana |
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Water Hauling and Girls' School Attendance : Some New Evidence from Ghana |
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water hauling and girls' school attendance : some new evidence from ghana |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/05/17714533/water-hauling-girls-school-attendance-some-new-evidence-ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15585 |
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