Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political … whether the objective and the associated costs are justified by the value that target beneficiaries assign to electricity. We … provide experimental evidence on the revealed willingness-to-pay (WTP) for three types of off-grid solar electricity devices …

electricity access gap, distributed power generation systems such as minigrids and stand-alone photovoltaic systems emerge as … household welfare and agricultural development across SSA countries. The empirical analysis makes use of a novel geocoded … electrification is positively associated with households' electricity uptake, ownership of low-power home appliances, and agricultural …

This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of …

increased electricity coverage in rural areas. Using household survey panel data from 2007-2010, we document that: i) girls …

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% (corresponding to an increase in the electricity price by 1,242%) leads to a 12 …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household …

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …-term impact on food security, household savings, assets and participation in microfinance. Participant women are less likely to be …

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature …

More than 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity. The UN have proclaimed the goal of providing electricity to …

gained early access to electricity experienced increased economic growth that persisted for decades after the country was …