How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India†

By Hunt Allcott, Allan Collard-Wexler, Stephen D. O'Connell. 2016

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Pollution

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Household electrification and indoor air pollution (2017, unknown): “4 A more recent stream of literature studies the association between electricity reliability and firm behavior (Allcott et al., 2016; Barron, 2017) and household satisfaction (Aklin et al.”
Dynamics of Electricity Consumption, Oil Price and Economic Growth: Global Perspective (2017, background): “A large number of developing countries have concerns about electricity shortages due to scarce resources and infrastructure (Allcott et al., 2014; Shahbaz and Ali, 2016).”
Electricity Cost and Firm Performance: Evidence from India (2017, methodology): “For instance, estimates from a recent paper on India’s power shortages (Allcott et al., 2016) suggest that a 1 percentage point increase in power shortages in India reduces manufacturing output by about 1.1%.”
Power outages and firm performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018, background): “In a study closely related to our own, Allcott et al. (2016) also use changes in the supply of electricity from hydropower production as an instrument to estimate the effect of power outages on the Indian manufacturing sector.”
Infrastructure Quality and the Subsidy Trap (2015, background): “Dinkelman (2011) shows that a rural electrification program in South Africa led to an increase in female employment, plausibly as the result of labor-saving technology used for home production activities. Lipscomb, Mobarak, and Barham (2013) use exogenous variation in electrification in Brazil betwe”
Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the U.S. Steel Industry (2015, unknown): “41 This decomposition has been suggested by Davis, Haltiwanger, and Schuh (1996) and has been used in other empirical work, such as De Loecker and Konings (2006).”