Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India

We know surprisingly little about the long-run impacts of household electrification. This paper studies the impacts on consumption in rural India over a 17-year period, allowing for both internal and external (village-level) effects. Under our identifying assumptions, electrification brought signifi...

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Main Authors:	van de Walle, Dominique, Ravallion, Martin, Mendiratta, Vibhuti, Koolwal, Gayatri
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2018
Subjects:	INVESTMENT ELECTRIFICATION ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY GRIDS ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY ENERGY CONSUMPTION ENERGY POLICY DAMS POLLUTION BIOENERGY
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30957

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spelling	okr-10986-309572021-05-25T10:54:35Z Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India van de Walle, Dominique Ravallion, Martin Mendiratta, Vibhuti Koolwal, Gayatri INVESTMENT ELECTRIFICATION ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY GRIDS ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY ENERGY CONSUMPTION ENERGY POLICY DAMS POLLUTION BIOENERGY We know surprisingly little about the long-run impacts of household electrification. This paper studies the impacts on consumption in rural India over a 17-year period, allowing for both internal and external (village-level) effects. Under our identifying assumptions, electrification brought significant consumption gains for households who acquired electricity for their own use. We also find evidence of a dynamic effect of village connectivity for households without electricity themselves. This is suggestive of an external effect, which also comes with a shift in consumption spending suggestive of status concerns among those still without electricity. Labor earnings were an important channel of impact. This was mainly through extra work by men. There was no effect on average wage rates. 2018-12-06T18:21:25Z 2018-12-06T18:21:25Z 2017-06-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30957 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research South Asia India
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topic	INVESTMENT ELECTRIFICATION ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY GRIDS ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY ENERGY CONSUMPTION ENERGY POLICY DAMS POLLUTION BIOENERGY
spellingShingle	INVESTMENT ELECTRIFICATION ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY GRIDS ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY ENERGY CONSUMPTION ENERGY POLICY DAMS POLLUTION BIOENERGY van de Walle, Dominique Ravallion, Martin Mendiratta, Vibhuti Koolwal, Gayatri Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India
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description	We know surprisingly little about the long-run impacts of household electrification. This paper studies the impacts on consumption in rural India over a 17-year period, allowing for both internal and external (village-level) effects. Under our identifying assumptions, electrification brought significant consumption gains for households who acquired electricity for their own use. We also find evidence of a dynamic effect of village connectivity for households without electricity themselves. This is suggestive of an external effect, which also comes with a shift in consumption spending suggestive of status concerns among those still without electricity. Labor earnings were an important channel of impact. This was mainly through extra work by men. There was no effect on average wage rates.
format	Journal Article
author	van de Walle, Dominique Ravallion, Martin Mendiratta, Vibhuti Koolwal, Gayatri
author_facet	van de Walle, Dominique Ravallion, Martin Mendiratta, Vibhuti Koolwal, Gayatri
author_sort	van de Walle, Dominique
title	Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India
title_short	Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India
title_full	Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India
title_fullStr	Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India
title_full_unstemmed	Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India
title_sort	long-term gains from electrification in rural india
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2018
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30957
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Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India

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