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JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
卷 122, 期 -, 页码 1-15出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.04.004
关键词
Water treatment; Education; Brawn; Gender; Early childhood; Fiscal programs
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资金
- National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01-HD30880, DK056350, R01-HD38700]
- Fogarty International Center, NIH
- China-Japan Friendship Hospital
- Ministry of Health
- Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [13XNF003]
Since little is known about the long-run effect of treated water, we examine the educational benefit to rural youth in China from a major water treatment program started in the 1980s. By employing a data set covering two decades and encompassing more than 4700 individuals between ages 18 and 25, we find that, on average, the program increased the completed grades of education of rural youth by 1.1 years. Moreover, the effect was highly heterogeneous across gender and age of exposure. Rural girls benefited from water treatment more than rural boys such that the water treatment program completely eliminated the gender gap in education in treated villages. Young rural people with access to treated water in early childhood experienced significantly higher gains in schooling attainment (i.e., by more than a year) than those that gained access at later stages of life. Our analysis suggests that this program was cost-effective. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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