Small-Scale Rural Water Supply and Development: Historical Experience of Korea

• 발행기관: 한국재정학회(구 한국재정·공공경제학회)
• 저자명: 홍석철(Sok Chul Hong) 윤양근(Yangkeun Yun)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국재정학회 학술대회 논문집』2018년도 추계학술대회 논문집, 1~25쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 경제경영 > 경제학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.10.30

영문 초록

After the Korean War, Korean government began to make investments on (largescale) water purification plants for clean and safe water supply. But their introduction was mostly limited to urban areas due to lack of economic validity in rural areas. Instead, the government began to install small-scale water supply system in rural areas since the late 1960s. Using the historical experience, this paper investigates the effects of small-scale water supply interventions on health and human capital formation in the long-term perspectives. First, exploiting the timing and geographic variations of small-scale water facilities, we estimate that the intervention substantially reduced the incidence of typhoid fevers. Second, we compare educational attainments of cohorts born in rural areas before and after small-scale facilities were introduced by using cohort samples constructed from the 1995, 2000, 2010, and 2015 Korean population censuses. We found that early-life exposure to the intervention was beneficial to human capital formation.

목차

1 Introduction

2 Small-scale Water Supply System and Typhoid fever

3 Long-term Followup from Early Childhood Exposure to Small-scale Water Supply System

4 Discussion

5 Concluding Remarks

키워드

Water supply investments Small-scale water supply system Typhoid fever Early-life condition Human capital development