Village sanitation and child health: Effects and external validity in a randomized field experiment in rural India
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Sanitation; Health; Experiment; External validity; India;All these keywords.
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- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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