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The E ects of Rural Electri cation on Employment: New Evidence from South Africa

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  • Taryn Dinkelman

    (Princeton University)

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This paper estimates the impact of electrification on employment growth by analyzing South Africa's mass roll-out of electricity to rural households. Using several new data sources and two different identification strategies (an instrumental variables strategy and a fixed effects approach), nd that electrification significantly raises female employment within 5 years. This new infras- tructure appears to increase hours of work for men and women, while reducing female wages and increasing male earnings. Several pieces of evidence suggest that household electrification raises employment by releasing women from home production and enabling micro-enterprizes. Migration behavior may also be affected.

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Paper provided by Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Research Program in Development Studies. in its series Working Papers with number 1255.

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Date of creation: Aug 2010
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Handle: RePEc:pri:rpdevs:1255

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Keywords: electrification; labor markets; women; electricity; employment; South Africa;

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  10. Taryn Dinkelman & Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, 2012. "Migration, congestion externalities, and the evaluation of spatial investments," Working Papers 700, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  11. Straub, Stéphane & Terada-Hagiwara, Akiko, 2011. "Infrastructure and Growth in Developing Asia," Open Access publications from University of Toulouse 1 Capitole http://neeo.univ-tlse1.fr, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole.
  12. Emanuela Cardia & Paul Gomme, 2011. "The Household Revolution: Childcare, Housework,and Female Labor Force Participation," Working Papers 11006, Concordia University, Department of Economics, revised 19 Jul 2012.
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