Title
Household electrification and indoor air pollution
Date Issued
01 November 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Academic Press Inc.
Abstract
This paper provides the first experimental evidence that household electrification leads to substantial reductions in indoor air pollution. Two years after electricity rollout, we measured overnight fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration, which was on average 66% lower among households that were randomly encouraged to connect to the electrical grid compared to those that were not. As a result, prevalence of acute respiratory infections among children under six was 8-14 percentage points lower in the former group. We find suggestive evidence that these changes are at least partly driven by reductions in kerosene use.
Start page
81
End page
92
Volume
86
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85028064540
Source
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
ISSN of the container
00950696
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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