The Effect of Piped Water at Home on Childhood Overweight Rate. Experimental Evidence from Urban Morocco
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Keywords
obesity; piped water; childhood; developing countries;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2019-02-11 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2019-02-11 (Development)
- NEP-HEA-2019-02-11 (Health Economics)
- NEP-SEA-2019-02-11 (South East Asia)
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