Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal.
Privatization
Sanitation
Urban development
Journal
Journal of development economics
ISSN: 0304-3878
Titre abrégé: J Dev Econ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9878815
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2023
Jan 2023
Historique:
received:
15
12
2021
revised:
17
08
2022
accepted:
28
08
2022
entrez:
4
1
2023
pubmed:
5
1
2023
medline:
5
1
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Privatization of a public good (the management of sewage treatment centers in Dakar, Senegal) leads to an increase in the productivity of downstream sewage dumping companies and a decrease in downstream prices of the services they provide to households. We use the universe of legal dumping of sanitation waste from May 2009 to May 2018 to show that legal dumping increased substantially following privatization-on average an increase of 74%, or an increase of about 1640 trips to treatment centers each month. This is due to increased productivity of all trucks, not just those associated with the company managing the privatized treatment centers. Household-level survey data shows that downstream prices of legal sanitary dumping decreased by 5% following privatization, and DHS data shows that diarrhea rates among children under five decreased in Dakar relative to secondary cities in Senegal following privatization with no similar effect on respiratory illness as a placebo.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36597446
doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102971
pii: S0304-3878(22)00113-4
pmc: PMC9756007
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
102971Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Author(s).
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