Undergraduate Honors Thesis
The Effect of Water and Sanitation Privatization on Child Mortality Rates in Guayaquil, Ecuador Public Deposited
https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/js956g469
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- A strong debate continues in economics over whether privatization of water and sanitation resources is beneficial in developing countries. This paper analyzes mortality and census data in the years 1990- 2010 from the Ecuadorian National Institute of Statistics and Censuses to determine how the privatization of water and sanitation in Guayaquil, Ecuador has affected water-related mortality rates in the city. In this analysis, I conduct a difference-in-difference regression analysis with the under-three, under-five, and under-ten water-related mortality rate as my dependent variable, and the event of water privatization as my independent variable. In this investigation, I find that water privatization in Guayaquil had a negligible effect on water-related mortality.
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- 2019-01-01
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- 2019-12-02
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