Impact of access to electricity on the well-being of rural households in Senegal
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Abstract
This study examines the welfare impacts of rural electrification using a panel dataset from 1,115 rural households in Senegal, observed in 2016 and 2020. Combining the quasi-experimental methods of propensity score matching (PSM) and difference-in-differences (DiD), we show that electrified households increased their non-food expenditure and non-agricultural employment by 39.5% and 39.2%, respectively, compared to their counterfactual. Children in electrified households are 45.3% more likely to be enrolled in school, 44.7% more likely to attend school, and study 63.3% more, with the increase in school attendance being more pronounced for girls compared to boys. Furthermore, poor households and those that have access to a marketplace drew the most substantial benefits from access to electricity. In sum, the findings show that access to electricity increases household well-being and thus encourage the speeding-up of universal access to electricity in rural areas both with on-grid and off-grid technologies.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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