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Does electrification spur the fertility transition? : evidence from Indonesia

Grimm, Michael; Sparrow, Robert; Tasciotti, Luca - 2014

controlling for local economic development. The electrification rate increased by about 65 percent over the study period and our … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased … results suggest that electrification contributes substantially to the fertility decline. In a context in which family planning …

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Which households respond to electricity peak pricing amid high levels of electrification?

Garnache, Cloé; Hernæs, Øystein; Imenes, Anders Gravir - 2022

We examine heterogeneity in Norwegian households' price responses to critical peak pricing (CPP) on electricity consumption, using a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-frequency electricity data, and default enrollment. Increasing the grid transmission charge by 4,067%...

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Demand for off-grid solar electricity : experimental evidence from Rwanda

Grimm, Michael; Lenz, Luciane; Peters, Jörg; Sievert, … - 2016

-based electrification because of its better cost-benefit performance. …

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Does electricity drive structural transformation? : evidence from the United States

Gaggl, Paul; Gray, Rowena; Marinescu, Ioana; Morin, Miguel - 2020

on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification with the length of … higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for electrification using hydro-electric potential, we find that the average ….3 percentage points and decreased the share of farmers by 2.1 percentage points. Electrification can explain 50.5% of the total …

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Factory automation, labor demand, and local labor market

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Okazaki, Tetsuji; Zhu, Xuanli - 2024

This study examines the impact of a technological change on employment and wages, focusing on the adoption of power looms in the silk-weaving industry. Exploiting plant-level panel data from 20th century Japan, we demonstrate that at the plant level, the power loom adaption increased the...

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