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Access to toilets and violence against women | |
Md Amzad Hossain; Kanika Mahajan and Sheetal Sekhri | |
2022-07-04 | |
出版年 | 2022 |
国家 | 瑞典 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
英文摘要 | This paper examines if in-home access to toilets reduces the risk of violent crimes against women. We use the roll out of the Swachh Bharat Mission, a flagship toilet construction program in India, to ascertain if assaults and rapes of women reduce when access to in-home toilets increases. We bolster our findings through an instrumental variable strategy using political alignment of locally elected representatives in close elections with the national government’s political party, post the launch of the program, as an instrument. We find that construction of toilets reduces sexual assaults on women, but do not discern consistent changes in rapes. Our findings for sexual assaults are robust to a variety of controls, specifications, and identification approaches. We address reporting changes as a plausible alternative explanation and present evidence to support the exclusion restriction in our IV strategy. |
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来源平台 | Environment for Development Initiative |
文献类型 | 科技报告 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/352810 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Md Amzad Hossain,Kanika Mahajan and Sheetal Sekhri. Access to toilets and violence against women,2022. |
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