Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India

Ujjayant Chakravorty (), Martino Pelli and Beyza Ural Marchand

No 163722, Energy: Resources and Markets from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Abstract: This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel of more than 10,000 households. We use the district-level density of transmission cables as instrument for the electrification status of the household. We find that a grid connection increases non-agricultural incomes of rural households by about 9 percent during the study period (1994-2005). However, a grid connection and a higher quality of electricity (in terms of fewer outages and more hours per day) increases non-agricultural incomes by about 28.6 percent in the same period.

Keywords: Resource/Energy; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41
Date: 2014-02
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.163722

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