| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26528 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26528 |
| Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development? | |
| Kenneth Lee; Edward Miguel; Catherine Wolfram | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-12-09 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In recent years, electrification has re-emerged as a key priority in low-income countries, with a particular focus on electrifying households. Yet the microeconomic literature examining the impacts of electrifying households on economic development has produced a set of conflicting results. Does household electrification lead to measurable gains in living standards or not? Focusing on grid electrification, we discuss how the divergent conclusions across the literature can be explained by differences in methods, interventions, potential for spillovers, and populations. We then use experimental data from Lee, Miguel, and Wolfram (2019) — a field experiment that connected randomly-selected households to the grid in rural Kenya — to show that impacts can vary even across individuals in neighboring villages. Specifically, we show that households that were willing to pay more for a grid electrification may gain more from electrification compared to households that would only connect for free. We conclude that access to household electrification alone is not enough to drive meaningful gains in development outcomes. Instead, future initiatives may work better if paired with complementary inputs that allow people to do more with power. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Development ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26528 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584202 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kenneth Lee,Edward Miguel,Catherine Wolfram. Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?. 2019. |
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