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Piped Water Access, Child Health and the Complementary Role of Education: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa

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  • Korstiaan Wapenaar
  • Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

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This study establishes the causal impact of piped water access on child health in rural South Africa (2008–2015) through the use of a panel dataset and a quasi-experimental sample space. By employing an ordinal measure of child health as the dependent variable within linear fixed effects, logit, ordinal probit, and propensity-score matched linear as well as non-linear Difference-in-Difference, it is demonstrated that positive health benefits for children with access to piped water are observed if and only if the minimum level of educational attainment of the primary-caregiver is equal to or greater than seven years. This finding of complementarity is demonstrated to be a function of an individual’s (in)capacity to evaluate water quality: people below this threshold suffer from a piped water bias, place insufficient weight on the observable characteristics of water when determining water quality, and are subsequently less likely to treat piped water preceding consumption.

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  • Korstiaan Wapenaar & Umakrishnan Kollamparambil, 2019. "Piped Water Access, Child Health and the Complementary Role of Education: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(6), pages 1182-1200, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:55:y:2019:i:6:p:1182-1200
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1487056
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    1. Umakrishnan Kollamparambil & Mlungisi Ndlovu, 2023. "Assessing the Income and Subjective Wellbeing Relationship Across Sub-national Developmental Contexts," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 24(2), pages 769-790, February.
    2. Pheeha Morudu & Umakrishnan Kollamparambil, 2020. "Health shocks, medical insurance and household vulnerability: Evidence from South Africa," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(2), pages 1-17, February.
    3. Jie Dong & Kuan Zhang & Xiguo Yin & Houjian Li & Mansoor Ahmed Koondhar, 2021. "Does piped water improve adolescent health? Empirical evidence from rural China," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(3), pages 1601-1628, August.
    4. Kadoukpè Gildas Magbondé & Djiby Racine Thiam & Natascha Wagner, 2024. "The Economic Impacts of Rural Water Supply Infrastructures in Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence from Senegal," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 87(10), pages 2571-2628, October.

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