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Kira Villa
Kira Villa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico. She received her PhD in Applied Economics at Cornell University in 2014. Her research interests lie at the intersection of human capital and development. She is particularly interested in how characteristics and events during childhood and adolescence influence socioeconomic wellbeing into adulthood and across generations.
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Reversing the trend: Improving toilet access for better test scores
Poor sanitation is associated with adverse health outcomes among children, which in turn are linked with poor educational outcomes. Leveraging the staggered implementation of ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ across districts in India during 2014-2018, this article shows that exposure to the programme improves children’s test performance in the short term, with larger estimated benefits the longer districts were exposed to the programme
