Publication: Long-term Impacts of Household Electrification in Rural India
dc.contributor.author | van de Walle, Dominique | |
dc.contributor.author | Ravallion, Martin | |
dc.contributor.author | Mendiratta, Vibhuti | |
dc.contributor.author | Koolwal, Gayatri | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-26T19:41:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-09-26T19:41:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | India's huge expansion in rural electrification in the 1980s and 1990s offers lessons for other countries today. The paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor supply, and schooling in rural India over 1982-99. It finds that household electrification brought significant gains to consumption and earnings, the latter through changes in market labor supply. It finds positive effects on schooling for girls but not for boys. External effects are also evident, whereby households without electricity benefit from village electrification. Wage rates were unaffected. Methodologically, the results suggest sizeable upward biases in past estimates of the gains from electrification associated with how past analyses dealt with geographic effects. | en |
dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17942598/long-term-impacts-household-electrification-rural-india | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/15885 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6527 | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ | |
dc.subject | ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURE | |
dc.subject | AIR POLLUTION | |
dc.subject | AVAILABILITY | |
dc.subject | BARGAINING | |
dc.subject | BARGAINING POWER | |
dc.subject | BASE YEAR | |
dc.subject | BENCHMARK | |
dc.subject | BENEFITS OF ELECTRIFICATION | |
dc.subject | BIO-FUELS | |
dc.subject | BIOMASS | |
dc.subject | BIOMASS FUELS | |
dc.subject | CHILD LABOR | |
dc.subject | CLEANER FUEL | |
dc.subject | COAL | |
dc.subject | CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES | |
dc.subject | CONSUMPTION INCREASES | |
dc.subject | CONSUMPTION LEVELS | |
dc.subject | CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY | |
dc.subject | COVERS | |
dc.subject | DAM CONSTRUCTION | |
dc.subject | DAMS | |
dc.subject | DAYLIGHT | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT POLICY | |
dc.subject | DIESEL | |
dc.subject | DIESEL GENERATORS | |
dc.subject | DISPLACEMENT | |
dc.subject | DOMESTIC LIGHTING | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC BENEFITS | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC COOPERATION | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC GROWTH | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC RESEARCH | |
dc.subject | ELECTRIC ENERGY | |
dc.subject | ELECTRIC LIGHTING | |
dc.subject | ELECTRIC STOVES | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICITY | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICITY ACCESS | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICITY GENERATION | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICITY GENERATION CAPACITY | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICITY GRID | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICITY SUPPLY | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICITY USE | |
dc.subject | ELECTRIFICATION | |
dc.subject | EMPLOYMENT | |
dc.subject | EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES | |
dc.subject | ENERGY CONSUMPTION | |
dc.subject | ENERGY ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject | ENERGY OUTLOOK | |
dc.subject | ENERGY POLICY | |
dc.subject | ENERGY SOURCES | |
dc.subject | ENGINES | |
dc.subject | EXCESS SUPPLY | |
dc.subject | EXTERNALITIES | |
dc.subject | EXTERNALITY | |
dc.subject | FANS | |
dc.subject | FEMALE EMPLOYMENT | |
dc.subject | FEMALE LABOR | |
dc.subject | FEMALE LABOR FORCE | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS | |
dc.subject | FUEL | |
dc.subject | FUEL CONSUMPTION | |
dc.subject | FUEL SWITCHING | |
dc.subject | GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM | |
dc.subject | GENERATING CAPACITY | |
dc.subject | GRID CONNECTION | |
dc.subject | GROWTH RATE | |
dc.subject | HEATING | |
dc.subject | HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT | |
dc.subject | HYDROELECTRIC POWER | |
dc.subject | HYDROPOWER | |
dc.subject | INCOME | |
dc.subject | INCOME EFFECT | |
dc.subject | INDUSTRIALIZATION | |
dc.subject | INHERITANCE | |
dc.subject | INNOVATION | |
dc.subject | INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT | |
dc.subject | KEROSENE | |
dc.subject | KEROSENE LAMPS | |
dc.subject | KEROSENE LIGHTING | |
dc.subject | LABOR FORCE | |
dc.subject | LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION | |
dc.subject | LABOR MARKET | |
dc.subject | LABOR MARKETS | |
dc.subject | LABOR SUPPLY | |
dc.subject | LABOUR | |
dc.subject | LABOUR SUPPLY | |
dc.subject | LIVING STANDARDS | |
dc.subject | MARGINAL PRODUCT | |
dc.subject | MARGINAL REVENUE | |
dc.subject | MARGINAL UTILITY | |
dc.subject | MARKET WAGE | |
dc.subject | NATURAL RESOURCES | |
dc.subject | OCCUPATIONS | |
dc.subject | OPPORTUNITY COST | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL ECONOMY | |
dc.subject | POLLUTION | |
dc.subject | POSITIVE EFFECTS | |
dc.subject | POWER | |
dc.subject | POWER GENERATING PLANT | |
dc.subject | POWER LINES | |
dc.subject | POWER PLANT | |
dc.subject | POWER SECTOR | |
dc.subject | POWER STATIONS | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTION FUNCTION | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTIVITY | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC GOOD | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC WORKS | |
dc.subject | REAL WAGE RATES | |
dc.subject | RIVERS | |
dc.subject | RURAL ELECTRICITY | |
dc.subject | RURAL ELECTRIFICATION | |
dc.subject | RURAL HOUSEHOLD ELECTRIFICATION | |
dc.subject | RURAL LABOR | |
dc.subject | SIGNS | |
dc.subject | SOCIAL CAPITAL | |
dc.subject | THERMAL POWER | |
dc.subject | TIME CONSTRAINTS | |
dc.subject | TRADITIONAL BIOMASS | |
dc.subject | TRADITIONAL FUELS | |
dc.subject | UNEMPLOYMENT RATE | |
dc.subject | UNEMPLOYMENT RATES | |
dc.subject | UTILITY FUNCTION | |
dc.subject | VARIABLE INPUTS | |
dc.subject | VILLAGE ELECTRIFICATION | |
dc.subject | VOLTAGE | |
dc.subject | WAGE RATES | |
dc.subject | WAGES | |
dc.subject | WEALTH | |
dc.subject | schooling | |
dc.title | Long-term Impacts of Household Electrification in Rural India | en |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.associatedcontent | https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/30957 Journal Article (version of record) | |
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea | Jobs | |
okr.date.disclosure | 2013-06-07 | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research | |
okr.docurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17942598/long-term-impacts-household-electrification-rural-india | |
okr.globalpractice | Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management | |
okr.globalpractice | Transport and ICT | |
okr.globalpractice | Social Protection and Labor | |
okr.globalpractice | Energy and Extractives | |
okr.identifier.doi | 10.1596/1813-9450-6527 | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000158349_20130628143734 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 17942598 | |
okr.identifier.report | WPS6527 | |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.pdfurl | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2013/06/28/000158349_20130628143734/Rendered/PDF/WPS6527.pdf | en |
okr.region.administrative | South Asia | |
okr.region.country | India | |
okr.sector | Agriculture, fishing, and forestry :: Agricultural extension and research | |
okr.theme | Rural development :: Other rural development | |
okr.topic | Science and Technology Development::Engineering | |
okr.topic | Social Protections and Labor::Labor Policies | |
okr.topic | Economic Theory and Research | |
okr.topic | Energy::Energy Production and Transportation | |
okr.topic | Energy::Electric Power | |
okr.topic | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth | |
okr.unit | Human Development (DECHD) | |
okr.volume | 1 of 1 | |
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