A World Bank working paper, titled ‘Water Quality, Brawn and Education: The Rural Drinking Water Program in China,' assesses the impact of water treatment programmes on education levels and finds that the implementation of such programmes in China during the 1980s increased the average grade of education completed by 1.08 years.
1 October 2014: A World Bank working paper, titled ‘Water Quality, Brawn and Education: The Rural Drinking Water Program in China,’ assesses the impact of water treatment programmes on education levels and finds that the implementation of such programmes in China during the 1980s increased the average grade of education completed by 1.08 years.
The research also found that girls benefited more from water treatment than boys in education level, while boys attained more body mass than girls from treated water.
The report includes an introduction and sections on: the rural drinking water programme in China; the sample, variables and estimation strategy; estimation results; and conclusions. [Publication: Water Quality, Brawn and Education: The Rural Drinking Water Program in China]