Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women’s Time in Home Production
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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In much of the developing world,
cooking accounts for the largest share of women’s time in
home production. Does relying on solid fuels drive this time
burden This study revisits a clean energy information
experiment in rural India to assess the time savings’
potential of cleaner cooking technologies. Treatment
villages were randomly assigned to receive information about
negative health effects of cooking with solid fuels and
about public subsidies for cleaner liquid petroleum gas
(LPG). Time-use data indicate that primary cooks spend
almost 24 hours cooking each week. Cleaner fuel use is
correlated with about 140 minutes less cooking time each
week. Yet households only reduce their weekly cooking time
by about 35 minutes in response to the randomized clean
energy information nudge. Factors limiting the impact of
clean energy nudges on the choice of home production
technologies and time use are discussed and an avenue for
future research is suggested.
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TIME USE, HOME PRODUCTION, ENERGY USE, INDIA