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Using framed field experiments to evaluate real-world policy interventions: A case study on changing environmental preferences

Reitmann, Ann-Kristin; Sievert, Maximiliane - 2024

Many policy interventions in the environmental sector aim at changing environmental preferences, because these provide the basis for adopting environmental conservation behavior or technologies. To evaluate these changes, standard measurement tools in survey-based impact evaluations have their...

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Rural Electrification and Domestic Violence in Sub Saharan Africa

Sievert, Maximiliane - 2024

Electrification is frequently said to foster women's development and contribute to a modernization of gender roles. Using Demographic and Health Survey data from rural areas in 22 Sub-Saharan countries collected between 1999 and 2014, this paper examines the role of electricity access in...

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10 years after: Long-term adoption of electricity in rural Rwanda

Masselus, Lise; Ankel-Peters, Jörg; Gonzalez Sutil, Gabriel - 2024

Extending the power grid into hitherto unconnected areas is high on the policy agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, connection rates and electricity consumption remain low in grid connected areas, at least in the short and medium run. This paper provides a long-term follow-up on an evaluation of a...

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A First Step up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda

Grimm, Michael; Munyehirwe, Anicet; Peters, Jörg; … - 2014

exceeds the benchmark of what the UN considers as modern energy. We find significant effects on households' budget …

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Does Large Scale Infrastructure Investment Alleviate Poverty? Impacts of Rwanda's Electricity Access Roll-Out Program

Lenz, Luciane; Munyehirwe, Anicet; Peters, Jörg; … - 2015

The United Nations' objective to provide electricity to the 1.3 billion people without access in developing countries comes at high costs. Little evidence exists on socioeconomic impacts of electrification. This paper rigorously investigates effects of a large grid extension program in Rwanda on...

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A First Step Up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda

Grimm, Michael; Munyehirwe, Anicet; Peters, Jörg; … - 2015

electricity is a prerequisite for human development, the United Nations initiative Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) has … proclaimed the goal of providing modern energy to all by 2030. In recent years, Pico-Photovoltaic kits have become a lower … simple Pico-Photovoltaic kit that barely exceeds the benchmark of what the UN considers as modern energy. We find significant …

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The lighting transition in Africa: From kerosene to LED and the emerging dry-cell battery problem

Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg; Sievert, Maximiliane - 2015

Non-electrified people in Africa, still more than 500 million today, have been using kerosene and candles for their lighting purposes for decades. The lighting quality of these sources is low and in particular kerosene usage is associated with harmful soot emissions. Alleviating this grievance...

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Rural electrification through mini-grids: Challenges ahead

Peters, Jörg; Sievert, Maximiliane; Toman, Michael A. - 2018

Recent debates on how to provide electricity to the roughly one billion still unconnected people in developing countries have identified mini-grids as a promising way forward. High upfront costs of transmission lines are avoided, and unlike home-scale solar, mini-grids can provide sufficient...

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

Grimm, Michael; Lenz, Luciane; Peters, Jörg; Sievert, … - 2017

Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are very high. The present paper examines whether the objective and the associated costs are...

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

Grimm, Michael; Lenz, Luciane; Peters, Jörg; Sievert, … - 2018

interpret the results from two perspectives. First, we examine whether the United Nations' universal energy access goal can be …

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