Long-term Impacts of Household Electrification in Rural India

Long-term Impacts of Household Electrification in Rural India

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 o...

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Main Authors:	van de Walle, Dominique, Ravallion, Martin, Mendiratta, Vibhuti, Koolwal, Gayatri
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AGRICULTURE AIR POLLUTION AVAILABILITY BARGAINING BARGAINING POWER BASE YEAR BENCHMARK BENEFITS OF ELECTRIFICATION BIO-FUELS BIOMASS BIOMASS FUELS CHILD LABOR CLEANER FUEL COAL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES CONSUMPTION INCREASES CONSUMPTION LEVELS CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY COVERS DAM CONSTRUCTION DAMS DAYLIGHT DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIESEL DIESEL GENERATORS DISPLACEMENT DOMESTIC LIGHTING ECONOMIC BENEFITS ECONOMIC COOPERATION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC RESEARCH ELECTRIC ENERGY ELECTRIC LIGHTING ELECTRIC STOVES ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY ACCESS ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION ELECTRICITY GENERATION ELECTRICITY GENERATION CAPACITY ELECTRICITY GRID ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ELECTRICITY USE ELECTRIFICATION EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ENERGY CONSUMPTION ENERGY ECONOMICS ENERGY OUTLOOK ENERGY POLICY ENERGY SOURCES ENGINES EXCESS SUPPLY EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FANS FEMALE EMPLOYMENT FEMALE LABOR FEMALE LABOR FORCE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FUEL FUEL CONSUMPTION FUEL SWITCHING GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM GENERATING CAPACITY GRID CONNECTION GROWTH RATE HEATING HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT HYDROELECTRIC POWER HYDROPOWER INCOME INCOME EFFECT INDUSTRIALIZATION INHERITANCE INNOVATION INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT KEROSENE KEROSENE LAMPS KEROSENE LIGHTING LABOR FORCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LABOR SUPPLY LABOUR LABOUR SUPPLY LIVING STANDARDS MARGINAL PRODUCT MARGINAL REVENUE MARGINAL UTILITY MARKET WAGE NATURAL RESOURCES OCCUPATIONS OPPORTUNITY COST POLITICAL ECONOMY POLLUTION POSITIVE EFFECTS POWER POWER GENERATING PLANT POWER LINES POWER PLANT POWER SECTOR POWER STATIONS PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC WORKS REAL WAGE RATES RIVERS RURAL ELECTRICITY RURAL ELECTRIFICATION RURAL HOUSEHOLD ELECTRIFICATION RURAL LABOR SIGNS SOCIAL CAPITAL THERMAL POWER TIME CONSTRAINTS TRADITIONAL BIOMASS TRADITIONAL FUELS UNEMPLOYMENT RATE UNEMPLOYMENT RATES UTILITY FUNCTION VARIABLE INPUTS VILLAGE ELECTRIFICATION VOLTAGE WAGE RATES WAGES WEALTH schooling
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17942598/long-term-impacts-household-electrification-rural-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15885

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17942598/long-term-impacts-household-electrification-rural-india
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15885

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