Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Scripps Senior Theses Scripps Student Scholarship 2019 Sanitation, Ek Prem Katha: The mpI act of Sanitation on Education in Indian Government Schools Romanshi Gupta Recommended Citation Gupta, Romanshi, "Sanitation, Ek Prem Katha: The mpI act of Sanitation on Education in Indian Government Schools" (2019). Scripps Senior Theses. 1260. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1260 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Scripps Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scripps Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Sanitation, Ek Prem Katha: The Impact of Sanitation on Education in Indian Government Schools by ROMANSHI GUPTA SUBMITTED TO SCRIPPS COLLEGE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS PROFESSOR NAYANA BOSE PROFESSOR DILARA ÜSKÜP 14th DECEMBER 2018 Table of Contents I.! Abstract 3 II.! Acknowledgements 4 III.! Introduction 5 IV.! Literature Review 9 V.! Data and Model 16 VI.! Results 24 VII.! Limitations 33 VIII.! Conclusion 34 IX.! Bibliography 36 X.! Appendix: Tables and Figures 39 Abstract The Total Sanitation Campaign is an initiative launched by the Government of India in 1999 to accelerate sanitation coverage throughout the country. This thesis measures the impact of the Total Sanitation Campaign on education in Indian government schools. I assess whether access to toilets, access to water or access to both toilets and water impact the following parameters of education: literacy, current enrollment in school or completed years of education. Data is sourced from the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, sorted for the nineteen major states in India and aggregated at a district level for each state.