The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment: New Evidence from South Africa

By Taryn Dinkelman. 2011

1,158 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Pollution, Safety Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Keywan Riahi
2. Volker Krey
3. Robert J. R. Elliott
4. M. Cole
5. Shahidur R. Khandker
6. Fernando V. Ferreira
7. David McCollum
8. Samuel Olorunfemi Adams

In Pollution

1. Jörg Peters
2. Maximiliane Sievert
3. Massimo Tavoni
4. Dominique van de Walle
5. Gayatri Koolwal
6. M. Ravallion
7. V. Mendiratta
8. Keywan Riahi

In Safety Research

1. M. Ravallion
2. Dominique van de Walle
3. Gayatri Koolwal
4. Jörg Peters
5. V. Mendiratta
6. Hussain Samad
7. James E. Foster
8. Maximiliane Sievert

Citations in the corpus

• Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India (2014, positive): “Dinkelman (2011) studied the labor market effects of an electrification project in South Africa using an instrumental variable approach.”
• Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics (2014, positive): “Dinkelman (2011) uses land gradient as an instrument for the prevalence of rural electrification in South Africa.”
• The Demand for Energy-Using Assets among the World's Rising Middle Classes (2016, background): “There are also established causal linkages between access to electricity and female labor force participation (Dinkelman 2011), housing values, and the UN Human Development Index (Lipscomb, Mobarak, and Barham 2013).”
• Household electrification and indoor air pollution (2017, positive): “Although large with respect to the baseline value, it is a smaller labor supply effect than the one found by Dinkelman (2011).”
• Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries (2020, background): “Dinkelman (2011) uses a post-apartheid push to expand access to electricity in South Africa to study the effects on the labor market.”
• Power outages and firm performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018, background): “Studies that consider the broader effect of electrification include Peters et al. (2010) and Dinkelman (2011) who investigate the effects of rural electrification schemes on the profitability of micro-enterprises and rural employment respectively, finding in both cases a partial but positive and…”
• Women ’ s economic empowerment and inclusive growth : labour markets and enterprise development (2012, background): “5% expansion in female employment but not in male (Dinkelman, 2010).”
• Impacts of rural electrification revisited – the African context (2016, positive): “Dinkelman (2011) observes the positive effects on female labour supply in the wake of electrification.”