The distributional effects of rural electrification on household welfare: Evidence from Senegal

IF 3.8 3区经济学 Q3 ENERGY & FUELS

Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI:10.1016/j.jup.2024.101846

Kadoukpè Gildas Magbondé , Barry Reilly , Bridget Kauma

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Abstract

This study uses a cross-sectional dataset of 3215 rural Senegalese households from the 2018/19 Harmonized Survey on Households Living Standards to assess the distributional household welfare effects of electricity access. The paper conducts separate analyses for both on-grid and off-grid electricity access and uses an array of empirical strategies to compute the relevant effects. We find that household access to grid electricity is associated with increased food and non-food expenditures, while off-grid solar electricity is only associated with increased levels of the latter. In addition, access to grid electricity appears to impact household expenditures more than solar electricity, with the off-grid effect not detected at the top end of the non-food expenditure distribution. In contrast, on-grid electricity has a greater welfare impact on higher-income households. The results further suggest that access to solar electricity can reduce inequality in total non-food household expenditures more than on-grid electricity. The findings encourage consideration of policies designed to extend solar energy to the more remote rural areas to reduce inequality.

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农村电气化对家庭福利的分配效应：塞内加尔的证据

本研究利用 2018/19 年家庭生活水平统一调查中 3215 个塞内加尔农村家庭的横截面数据集，评估了通电对家庭福利分配的影响。本文对电网供电和离网供电分别进行了分析，并采用了一系列实证策略来计算相关效应。我们发现，家庭获得电网供电与食品和非食品支出的增加有关，而离网太阳能供电仅与后者支出的增加有关。此外，与太阳能发电相比，电网供电对家庭支出的影响似乎更大，在非食品支出分布的高端没有发现离网效应。相比之下，电网供电对高收入家庭的福利影响更大。研究结果进一步表明，与并网供电相比，使用太阳能发电更能减少非食品家庭总支出的不平等。研究结果鼓励考虑制定政策，将太阳能推广到更偏远的农村地区，以减少不平等现象。

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Utilities Policy ENERGY & FUELS-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

CiteScore

6.80

自引率

10.00%

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审稿时长

66 days

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