• DOI:10.1016/j.soscij.2014.12.009
Corpus ID: 14457840

Electricity, income, and quality of life

@article{Bridge2016ElectricityIA,
  title={Electricity, income, and quality of life},
  author={Brandon A. Bridge and D. Adhikari and M. Fontenla},
  journal={The Social Science Journal},
  year={2016},
  volume={53},
  pages={33 - 39}
}

Brandon A. Bridge, D. Adhikari, M. Fontenla

Published 2016

Economics

The Social Science Journal

Abstract This paper looks at the effect of electricity on income, education, health, and labor productivity in Nepal. Our data comes from the Nepal Living Standards Survey-III, conducted in 2010–2011. To account for endogeneity issues, we estimate a simultaneous system of equations via the three-stage least squares (3SLS) method. We find that a household being connected to electricity has a very large and significant effect on income, educational attainment, and agricultural productivity. We… CONTINUE READING

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