Increasing electricity access remains a challenge, particularly in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. This study … this despite substantial government subsidies for household connections. Using data from 1774 rural households living … within reach of the electricity grid, we investigate correlates of the low grid electricity uptake. We find that proxies for …

Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political … whether the objective and the associated costs are justified by the value that target beneficiaries assign to electricity. We … provide experimental evidence on the revealed willingness-to-pay (WTP) for three types of off-grid solar electricity devices …

The cost of providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is significant. High … electricity, but not enough to reach cost-covering prices. Randomly assigned payment periods do not alter this finding. We …

Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political … whether the objective and the associated costs are justified by the value that target beneficiaries assign to electricity. We … provide experimental evidence on the revealed willingness-to-pay (WTP) for three types of off-grid solar electricity devices …

electricity we consider as outcomes labour markets, time allocation, household welfare (consumption, income, schooling and health …Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has … review the literature on existing impact evaluation of access to electricity and modern cooking facilities. For access to …

Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has … recent strand of research, trying to fill these gaps. We focus on the demand-side and household perspective. Our main … outcomes of interest are electricity connection and ICS adoption for the analysis of barriers, time allocation, labour market …

In Sub-Saharan Africa, 600 million people live without electricity. Despite ambitions of governments and donors to … invest in rural electrification, decisions about how to extend electricity access are being made in the absence of rigorous … and visualize energy poverty in a novel way. Using our dataset of 20,000 geo-tagged structures in Western Kenya, we …