The impact of water quality on health: Evidence from the drinking water infrastructure program in rural China

This paper investigates the effect of a major water quality improvement program in rural China on the health of adults and children. Using panel data covering about 4500 households from 1989 to 2006, I estimate the impact of introducing village-level access to water from water plants on various meas...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of health economics Jg. 31; H. 1; S. 122 - 134
1. Verfasser: Zhang, Jing
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.01.2012
Elsevier
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
Schlagworte:
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Child
Child health
Child, Preschool
Children
Childrens health
China
Contaminated water
Drinking water
Drinking Water - standards
Female
Health
Health inequality
Health status
Households
Humans
Illness
Infrastructure
Infrastructure program
Male
Middle Aged
Nutrition
Panel data
Program Evaluation
Public health
Public infrastructure
Quality management
Robustness
Rural areas
Rural communities
Rural Health - statistics & numerical data
Studies
Water Quality
Water supply
China
I18
Drinking water
Health status
I31
Q53
Infrastructure program
ISSN:0167-6296, 1879-1646, 1879-1646
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Zusammenfassung:This paper investigates the effect of a major water quality improvement program in rural China on the health of adults and children. Using panel data covering about 4500 households from 1989 to 2006, I estimate the impact of introducing village-level access to water from water plants on various measures of health. The regression results imply that the illness incidence of adults decreased by 11 percent and their weight-for-height increased by 0.835kg/m, and that children's weight-for-height and height itself both rose by 0.446kg/m and 0.962cm respectively, as a result of the program. And these estimates are quite stable across different robustness checks.
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ISSN:0167-6296
1879-1646
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DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.08.008