Does (better) electricity supply increase household enterprise income in India?

Rao, N.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1888-5292 (2013). Does (better) electricity supply increase household enterprise income in India? Energy Policy 57 532-541. 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.02.025.

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Abstract

Electricity access is an important driver of economic development. Previous studies treat electrification as a binary outcome. In reality, in developing countries households with access face chronic supply interruptions, which can last up to 12 h a day. This is the first study to estimate the income differences in urban and rural non-farm enterprises in Indian households with different levels of electricity supply, using a subset of 8125 households in the India Human and Development Survey, a cross-sectional national sample of 41,554 households. I use multiple econometric approaches, including linear regression with an instrument variable and propensity-score matching with multiple treatment levels to represent supply availability. I find a robust income effect of access, and suggestive evidence of the effect of better supply availability. The aggregate income impact across existing NFEs in India of improving supply to 16 h a day could be on the order of 0.1 percent of GDP.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Energy poverty; Electricity reliability; Development
Research Programs:	Energy (ENE) Postdoctoral Scholars (PDS)
Bibliographic Reference:	Energy Policy; 57:532-541 (June 2013) (Published online 15 March 2013)
Depositing User:	IIASA Import
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2016 08:49
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 17:23
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/10481

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