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Abstract
The economics literature on the determinants of diarrhoea focuses on infants; but what about school going adolescents? Our survey in an Indian village school affirms that sanitation, defecation practices at home and school, and the degree of crowding of living space at home are all significant determinants of diarrhoeal incidence for adolescents. Usage of toilets at school varies as a function of gender and existence of a toilet in student’s home. Access to toilets is not sufficient to guarantee their usage. To eliminate open defecation: toilets installation, behavioural change, and sustainable mechanisms to maintain school toilets seem necessary.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Mr. S. Paranjothi of Friend in Need India and Ms. Aditi Kumar for their precious help in administering the questionnaire. We are grateful to the two anonymous referees for extremely helpful comments on the earlier draft. We remain responsible for all remaining errors. The first author gratefully acknowledges support under the ICSSR-NWO lndia-Netherlands Social Science Scholar Exchanges program. The third author thanks UNU-MERIT for her stay in Maastricht as Visiting Researcher in 2014, which was most productively utilised for completion of the paper. Data compiled for this paper may be accessed by writing to Timothée Frühauf (tfruhau1@jhmi.edu).
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.