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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
Lighting Up the Last Mile: The Benefits and Costs of Extending Electricity to the Rural Poor | |
Ujjayant Chakravorty; Kyle Emerick; Majah-Leah Ravago | |
发表日期 | 2016-07-26 |
出版年 | 2016 |
页码 | DP 16-22-REV |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | What role does electricity play in improving people’s lives? An analysis of the Philippines suggests that the benefits of rural electrification may be significantly high, even in the very short run. |
结论 | |
摘要 | Approximately one billion people live without access to electricity. However, there has been no study that rigorously estimates both the realized benefits and costs of electricity provision. In this paper, we document substantial short-run welfare gains from electricity expansion in the Philippines. We first project the expansion of the electricity grid under a least-cost first principle. Using this projected expansion as an instrument, we estimate large impacts of electricity infrastructure on household income and expenditures. We then use data on costs of electrifying individual villages to show that in a majority of cases, the physical cost of expanding electricity infrastructure is recovered after only a single year of realized expenditure gains. Finally, we find that electricity does not increase employment, suggesting that increased labor force participation is not the relevant mechanism. Rather, increases in agricultural income appear to account for a meaningful share of the income gains from electrification. These findings suggest that the benefits to rural electrification may be significantly high, even in the very short run. |
主题 | Development and Environment ; Energy and Electricity |
URL | http://www.rff.org/research/publications/lighting-last-mile-benefits-and-costs-extending-electricity-rural-poor |
来源智库 | Resources for the Future (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/41457 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ujjayant Chakravorty,Kyle Emerick,Majah-Leah Ravago. Lighting Up the Last Mile: The Benefits and Costs of Extending Electricity to the Rural Poor. 2016. |
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