Title: Dams, Poverty, Public Goods and Malaria Incidence in India

Type Dataset Duflo, Esther, Pande, Rohini (2007): Dams, Poverty, Public Goods and Malaria Incidence in India. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/MNIBOL

Authors: Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Pande, Rohini (Harvard University) ; Pande, Rohini (Harvard University) ; Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Esther Duflo ; Rohini Pande ; Jameel Poverty Action Lab ;

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Summary

The data contains 5 different files, classified by topic. The file india_pov_c81_revise.dta contains variables on the number of dams in each district as well as information about the neighbouring districts. The data set also includes data on local poverty, such as a povertygap measure, the gini coefficient, mean per capita expenditure. The file india_ag_extend contains in addition, data on agricultural produc tion ( value, yield) for major crops and distinguishes between water-intensive and non-water-intensive crops. The file census.dta contains data on the population size and occupation. The file india_public_updown_doc.dta contains data on the availability of public goods such as water access, power facilities and road. The file malaria_code81.dta contains in addition a variable about malaria incidence.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/MNIBOL

Subjects

• Social Sciences, dams and poverty, The MacArthur Network on Inequality, JPAL
• Economic theory and demography: Economic theory, Demography
• Health: Public health

Dates

• Publication date: 2007
• Issued: 2006
• Created: 2006
• Submitted: 2006
• Updated: March 31, 2020

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Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

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electronic resource

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