Benefits of Electrification and the Role of Reliability : Evidence from India

This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household panel survey data for 2005 and 2012. Analysis based on a propensity-score-weighted fixed-effects model finds that while electrificat...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Samad, Hussain, Zhang, Fan
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	rural electrification reliability electricity distributional impact quantile regression
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/980911479147772730/Benefits-of-electrification-and-the-role-of-reliability-evidence-from-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25691

id	okr-10986-25691
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	okr-10986-256912021-06-08T14:42:46Z Benefits of Electrification and the Role of Reliability : Evidence from India Samad, Hussain Zhang, Fan rural electrification reliability electricity distributional impact quantile regression This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household panel survey data for 2005 and 2012. Analysis based on a propensity-score-weighted fixed-effects model finds that while electrification is associated with a broad range of social and economic benefits, the size of the effects depends importantly on the reliability of electricity service. Gaining access to electricity combined with a reliable power supply is associated with a 17 percent increase in income during the sample period, but gaining access to electricity alone is associated with only a 9.6 percent increase in income. The net gain from both increasing the access rate and reducing power outages in rural India is estimated to be US$11 billion a year. Moreover, India's rural electrification policy appears to be progressive because lower-income households benefit more from access to electricity than higher-income households during the sample period. 2016-12-06T21:49:16Z 2016-12-06T21:49:16Z 2016-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/980911479147772730/Benefits-of-electrification-and-the-role-of-reliability-evidence-from-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25691 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7889 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia India
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	Digital Repositories
building	World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection	World Bank
language	English en_US
topic	rural electrification reliability electricity distributional impact quantile regression
spellingShingle	rural electrification reliability electricity distributional impact quantile regression Samad, Hussain Zhang, Fan Benefits of Electrification and the Role of Reliability : Evidence from India
geographic_facet	South Asia India
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7889
description	This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household panel survey data for 2005 and 2012. Analysis based on a propensity-score-weighted fixed-effects model finds that while electrification is associated with a broad range of social and economic benefits, the size of the effects depends importantly on the reliability of electricity service. Gaining access to electricity combined with a reliable power supply is associated with a 17 percent increase in income during the sample period, but gaining access to electricity alone is associated with only a 9.6 percent increase in income. The net gain from both increasing the access rate and reducing power outages in rural India is estimated to be US$11 billion a year. Moreover, India's rural electrification policy appears to be progressive because lower-income households benefit more from access to electricity than higher-income households during the sample period.
format	Working Paper
author	Samad, Hussain Zhang, Fan
author_facet	Samad, Hussain Zhang, Fan
author_sort	Samad, Hussain
title	Benefits of Electrification and the Role of Reliability : Evidence from India
title_short	Benefits of Electrification and the Role of Reliability : Evidence from India
title_full	Benefits of Electrification and the Role of Reliability : Evidence from India
title_fullStr	Benefits of Electrification and the Role of Reliability : Evidence from India
title_full_unstemmed	Benefits of Electrification and the Role of Reliability : Evidence from India
title_sort	benefits of electrification and the role of reliability : evidence from india
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/980911479147772730/Benefits-of-electrification-and-the-role-of-reliability-evidence-from-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25691
_version_	1764459902686724096

Benefits of Electrification and the Role of Reliability : Evidence from India

Similar Items