Sanitation dynamics: toilet acquisition and its economic and social implications in rural and urban contexts

• DOI: 10.2166/washdev.2020.098
• Publication Date: 2020-10-06T17:26:34Z
• Authors: Britta Augsburg; Paul Rodríguez-Le...
• Keywords: Toilet

Abstract This paper uses primary micro-data from Indian households residing in rural villages and poor urban neighbourhoods to shed light on household sanitation decision-making. We use a theoretical economic model reduce the dimensionality complexity of this process. Beyond most commonly analysed motivator, health, we consider non-pecuniary benefits. provide empirical evidence that each these margins matter, do so both contexts, discuss how our findings can be explored policy programme design.