Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India
By U. Chakravorty, Martino Pelli, B. U. Marchand. Social Science Research Network, 2014
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This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel of more than 10,000 households. We use the district-level density of transmission cables as instrument for the electrification status of the household. We find that a grid connection increases non-agricultural incomes of rural households by about 9 percent during the study period (1994-2005). However, a grid connection and a higher quality of electricity (in terms of fewer outages and more hours per day) increases non-agricultural incomes by about 28.6 percent in the same period.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Pollution, Safety Research
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- Access to modern energy: a review of barriers, drivers and impacts (2016, background): “provision per day generate relevant improvements in non-agricultural incomes in rural India (Chakravorty et al., 2014).”