BERNARD, Tanguy; TORERO, Maximo

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BERNARD, Tanguy

Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée [GREThA]

TORERO, Maximo

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Economic Development and Cultural Change. 2015, vol. 63, n° 3, p. 459-484

Résumé en anglais

This article tests for the presence of social interaction effects on households' decision to connect to a newly installed electrical grid in rural Ethiopia and attempts to identify the underlying factors at work. Understanding households' connection decisions has led to significant debates at a time when rural electrification is being promoted throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The article reveals that the investigation relies on the random allocation of nontransferable vouchers that provided a discount on connection to the grid, along with household-level global positioning system (GPS) locations. Connection price being an important driver of a household?s choice to connect, the vouchers provide an exogenous variation in the number of connected neighbors within a particular distance radius, allowing us to identify social multipliers effects.< Réduire

Mots clés en anglais

Ethiopia

rural area

electricity

GPS

social participation

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https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/3505

Unités de recherche

Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA) - UMR 5113