Spring cleaning: Rural water impacts, valuation, and property rights institutions

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 145-205

  Kremer, Michael ^a,b   Leino, Jessica ^a,b   Miguel, Edward ^a,b   Zwane, Alix Peterson ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH IMPACT; INVESTMENT; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RURAL AREA; SPRING WATER; VALUATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WELFARE IMPACT;

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; KENYA; LEGAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SANITATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; KENYA; PUBLIC FACILITIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

KENYA;

EID: 79955396913     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjq010     Document Type: Article

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