Arbeitspapier
Urban water disinfection and mortality decline in developing countries
Historically, improvements municipal drinking water quality contributed significantly to mortality decline in wealthy countries. However, water disinfection has not produced equivalent benefits in developing countries today. We investigate this puzzle by analyzing a large-scale municipal water disinfection program in Mexico in 1991 that dramatically increased access to chlorinated water. On average, we find that the program led to a 37 to 48% decline in diarrheal mortality among children and was highly cost-effective ($1,310 per life-year saved). However, age (degradation) of water pipes and insufficient complementary sanitation infrastructure attenuated these benefits. Countervailing behavioral responses, although present, appear to be less important.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2017-04
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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clean water
chlorination
child mortality
infectious disease
diarrhea
Mexico
cost-effectiveness
sanitation
behavioral responses
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bhalotra, Sonia
Diaz-Cayeros, Alberto
Miller, Grant
Miranda, Alfonso
Venkataramani, Atheendar S.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
- (where)
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Colchester
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bhalotra, Sonia
- Diaz-Cayeros, Alberto
- Miller, Grant
- Miranda, Alfonso
- Venkataramani, Atheendar S.
- University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Time of origin
- 2017
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