Household Access to Water and Education for Girls: The Case of Mountain Villages in Nepal
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著者 |
Dhital, Ram P.
Ito, Takahiro
Komatsu, Satoru
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キーワード | JEL codes: I24
JEL codes: I25
JEL codes: O13
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NDC |
建設工学・土木工学
教育
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抄録(英) | 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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内容記述 | This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (grant numbers JP25257102 and 16K21162).
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IDEC DP2 Series
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巻 | 7巻
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号 | 5号
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開始ページ | 1
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終了ページ | 29
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出版年月日 | 2018-03-27
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出版者 | 広島大学大学院国際協力研究科
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言語 |
英語
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紀要論文
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学内刊行物(紀要等)
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DCMIタイプ | text
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著者版フラグ | publisher
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部局名 |
国際協力研究科
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