Publication: Better Access to Water Raises Welfare, But Not Women’s Off-Farm Work
Date
2011-10
ISSN
Published
2011-10
Author(s)
Abstract
In the developing world, poor rural
women and their children spend considerable time collecting
water. Do women living in areas where more time is needed
for water collection tend to participate less in
income-earning, market-based activities? Do the education
outcomes of their children tend to be worse? This note uses
micro-data for eight developing countries to examine these
questions. Better access to water is not found to be
associated with greater off-farm paid work for women, but is
associated with less unpaid work. In countries where
substantial gender gaps in schooling exist, enrollment for
both boys and girls tends to be higher.
Citation
“Walle, Dominique van de; Koolwal, Gayatri. 2011. Better Access to Water Raises Welfare, But Not Women’s Off-Farm Work. Economic Premise; No. 67. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/879d90a2-a5f4-59c3-b9a1-5898ed1da409 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”