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    The Impact of Building Toilets On School Enrollment: Down The Drain?

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    Hamza, Ali
    Advisor
    Johnson, Erica
    Abstract
    There are over 59 million children who are out of school at primary level and policy makers are trying to find ways to achieve universal primary enrollment. This paper tests the hypothesis that investment in school infrastructure, through building toilets, can lead to an increase in enrollment. In recent years, multiple papers and reports have been published that recommend building toilets as a way to increase enrollment. Most of these recommendations are based on a single source, Adukia (2014). This paper builds on the analysis of Adukia (2014) that showed toilet construction led to an increase in enrollment during a national school-latrine construction initiative in India. Using annual census data of government schools in Punjab, Pakistan, I estimate that the impact of building toilets is negligible once you control for other variables (new classrooms, teachers) that were ignored by Adukia (2014).
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    M.P.P.
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1041865
    Date Published
    2016
    Subject
    Education; Enrollment; impact; latrines; Sanitation; Toilets; Public policy; Education; Asian Americans -- Research; Public policy; Education; Asian American studies;
    Type
    thesis
    Publisher
    Georgetown University
    Extent
    29 leaves
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