Household Access to Water and Education for Girls: The Case of Mountain Villages in Nepal
Use this link to cite this item : http://doi.org/10.15027/45545
ID | 45545 |
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Dhital, Ram P.
Ito, Takahiro
Komatsu, Satoru
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subject | JEL codes: I24
JEL codes: I25
JEL codes: O13
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Construction. Civil engineering
Education
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abstract | In many developing countries including Nepal, water fetching is traditionally conducted by women and girls. In a mountainous hinterland of Nepal without systematic water and electricity supply, it is inevitably laborious, and as a result, girls receive fewer educational opportunities than boys. This paper aims to identify the causal effect of household water accessibility on children’s educational attainment measured by school attendance, grade repetition, and completion of primary and lower secondary schools in remote mountainous villages in Nepal. The estimation results evince that water hauling hinders girls from completing schooling, indicating that a one-hour increase in the time spent going to and from the water source will decrease the probability of female children completing primary school by 24.1 percentage points, while male children do not drop out, although they are more likely to repeat a grade. This implies that increased water accessibility—for example, by providing a solar water pumping system that the Nepali government promotes—improves household wellbeing, particularly girls’ educational attainment, by reducing the burden of water collection.
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description | This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (grant numbers JP25257102 and 16K21162).
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journal title |
IDEC DP2 Series
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volume | Volume 7
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issue | Issue 5
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start page | 1
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end page | 29
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date of issued | 2018-03-27
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publisher | 広島大学大学院国際協力研究科
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language |
eng
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nii type |
Departmental Bulletin Paper
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HU type |
Departmental Bulletin Papers
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DCMI type | text
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format | application/pdf
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text version | publisher
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Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation
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