Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India
| dc.creator | Chakravorty, Ujjayant | |
| dc.creator | Pelli, Martino | |
| dc.creator | Marchand, Beyza Ural | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:07:09Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T07:47:01Z | |
| dc.description | 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. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.163722 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/163722/files/NDL2014-011.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/163722 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/592120 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/163722 | |
| dc.title | Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India | |
| dc.type | Text |