poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … the measurement assumptions. With only a modest allowance for leisure as a basic need, the effort-adjusted poverty rate in …

paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor supply, and schooling in rural India … over 1982-99. It finds that household electrification brought significant gains to consumption and earnings, the latter …