Energy access and development: an empirical analysis of household access to electricity effect on scholar instruction in Burkina Faso

Kenneth Ky ()
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Kenneth Ky: GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes, IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: This paper deals with access to electricity effects on scholar instruction in Burkina Faso. We try first to know whether households' electrification can improve access to scholar instruction (ie. literacy) and schooling duration. In a second time we deal with the importance of electrification technology (centralized grid or decentralized photovoltaic) on scholar instruction. Our data are from the Burkina Faso households living conditions surveys of 2013- 2014. We use propensity score matching method to estimate averaged effect of electricity access on people living in electrified households. Results show positives effect of household electrification on people instruction level. However, comparing centralized grid electricity versus decentralized photovoltaic electrification indicates better results of centralized electrification on scholar instruction but only on schooling duration.

Keywords: Access to electricity; Scholar instruction; Scholar level; Literacy; Solar photovoltaic; Electric grid; Treatment; Treated group; Control group; Propensity score; Matching; Averaged effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-09-09
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Published in 8. FAERE annual conference, French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Sep 2021, Grenoble, France

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