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Pricing electricty blackout among South African households

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  • Johane Dikgang
  • Nomsa P. Nkosi

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South African households, like households in many other developing countries, are faced with regular power outages. This is a big problem, since the outages that the households experience are both frequent and long in duration. Efficient electricity infrastructure investment decisions are possible only if the welfare loss of electricity blackouts is determined. We estimate a […]

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  • Johane Dikgang & Nomsa P. Nkosi, 2018. "Pricing electricty blackout among South African households," Working Papers 727, Economic Research Southern Africa.
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    Keywords

    electricity; Eskom; Welfare; willingness to pay;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • R20 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - General

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