of electrification. We first make corrections to the construction of the dataset, including the modelled IV. Revised …

This paper reviews the book 'Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa' by Antonio Estache and Quentin Wodon …. The authors summarize the political debate on infrastructure policy in Africa in a very compelling and knowledgeable way … welfare enhancing benefits of infrastructure investments is less conclusive than suggested in the book. The book also misses …

This paper replicates and extends the seminal paper by Dinkelman (2011) on the impacts of electrification on female …-electrified regions. We also demonstrate that it is more difficult to disentangle the effects of electricity and road infrastructure than … using geographical variation as a natural experiment for infrastructure evaluation. …

. Leveraging population-based discontinuities in the contemporaneous roll-out of India's national rural electrification scheme, we … how complementary economic conditions drive heterogeneity in the labor-market impacts of rural electrification. It also … helps explain the large variation in the reported impacts of such resource-intensive infrastructure investments globally. …

In recent years, rural electrification and access to television have spread rapidly throughout the developing world …. The values and cultural norms embodied in television programming have potentially profound implications for infl uencing … (IFLS), this paper explores the eff ect of television ownership on the use of modern contraceptives in rural Indonesia …

In recent years, rural electrification and access to television have spread rapidly throughout the developing world …. The values and cultural norms embodied in television programming have potentially profound implications for influencing … (IFLS), this paper explores the effect of television ownership on the use of modern contraceptives in rural Indonesia …

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we … effect on fertility. Coupled with higher labor-supply and wage returns for nonmothers as compared to mothers the timing …

. Focusing on daughters-in-law, we examine whether the gender role attitudes of foreign-born mothers-in-law affect the fertility … the fertility behavior of native women. …