We study the effects of a rural electrification program on employment in Peru. Taking advantage of the program's roll-out across districts over time, we adopt differences-in-differences and fixed-effects strategies to estimate the impact of electrification on labor market outcomes. Our preferred...

We examine the effects of a rural electrification program on employment in Peru. Exploiting the roll-out of the program across districts over time, we adopt differences-in-differences and fixedeffects strategies to estimate the impact of the program on labor market outcomes. The results from our...

The poverty incidence among the rural population in Latin America is above 50 percent. Peru mimics the Latin American picture fairly well, with a rural poverty of about 65 percent. The rural nonfarm sector has gained increasing attention lately, considered as having the potential to absorb a...