household demand for toilets, and study the factors leading to open defecation. Using Demographic and Health Survey data we … important aspect for this supply-side initiative to become successful is to create demand for toilets. In this paper we look at … create a wealth index, and use it to rank household preference for toilets vis-à-vis 20 other different consumer durables …

examines three facets of urban India's housing demand using the latest available nationally representative household data on … has been confined to low-income economic groups in 2018. Second, we analyse the housing consumption demand of low …-income households, or these households' demand for housing for purposes of residing or 'living in', and find demand to be price and …

Even as India pursues universal electricity access, household electricity demand remains poorly understood. While … demand in 200 villages in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, and Rajasthan. We rely on energy use surveys that capture appliance …-electricity supply predicts demand: every 1% increase in supply hours is associated with 1.245% increase in demand. Our findings suggest …

within India and a newly-assembled data set that combines national household survey data, census data and satellite images of … demand for forest products associated with income and population growth lead to forest growth. The evidence is consistent … with this hypothesis, which also shows that neither the expansion of agricultural productivity nor rising wages in India …