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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Bibliographic Details
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
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30957