Social capital and hygiene practices among the extreme poor in rural Bangladesh Bakshi, Rejaul K., Mallick, Debdulal and Ulubaşoğlu, Mehmet A. 2015, Social capital and hygiene practices among the extreme poor in rural Bangladesh, Journal of development studies, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 1603-1618, doi: 10.1080/00220388.2015.1068291. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Social capital and hygiene practices among the extreme poor in rural Bangladesh Author(s) Bakshi, Rejaul K. Mallick, Debdulal orcid.org/0000-0002-3919-4784 Ulubaşoğlu, Mehmet A. orcid.org/0000-0003-3055-5755 Journal name Journal of development studies Volume number 51 Issue number 12 Start page 1603 End page 1618 Total pages 16 Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge) Place of publication Oxford, Eng. Publication date 2015-09-11 ISSN 0022-0388 1743-9140 Summary We investigate the effect of social capital on hygiene practices pertaining to lives of the extreme poor in rural Bangladesh. Analysing a unique survey dataset for 5,600 extreme poor households, we document a significant positive effect of social capital on sanitary latrine use and wearing shoes/sandals at home for hygiene. We account for the endogeneity of social capital by instrumental variable estimation. Our findings emphasise the role of social capital in preventing common diseases through improving hygiene practices for the extreme poor, who usually lack access to medical services in the event of illness, which has important policy implications. Language eng DOI 10.1080/00220388.2015.1068291 Field of Research 14 Economics 16 Studies In Human Society 140299 Applied Economics not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 919999 Economic Framework not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2015, Taylor & Francis (Routledge) Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30079843 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law School of Accounting, Economics and Finance 2018 ERA Submission Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 26 Nov 2015, 13:42:25 EST Fri, 27 Nov 2015, 04:03:06 EST Fri, 27 Nov 2015, 05:11:43 EST Tue, 08 Dec 2015, 10:55:55 EST Wed, 09 Dec 2015, 08:49:55 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2016, 10:47:40 EST Fri, 21 Apr 2017, 07:15:06 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 4 times in TR Web of Science Cited 8 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 446 Abstract Views, 7 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 26 Nov 2015, 13:42:25 EST

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