IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rjapxx/v26y2021i4p720-747.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Does quality of electricity matter? Household-level evidence from the Philippines

Author

Listed:
  • Vanessa Mae Pepino
  • Majah-Leah V. Ravago
  • Karl Jandoc

Abstract

The Philippines is a country that faces many development challenges, including providing reliable and good quality electricity. Access to good quality electricity connection matters because it affects many aspects that increase productivity (e.g. education, health and business) and can make lives easier and more comfortable. While access has improved over time, many households still suffer from poor quality of their connection brought about by incidents of power outages, fluctuations and low voltage. This article attempts to examine whether better electricity quality improves household welfare. We apply a two-stage probit-ordered probit model to overcome endogeneity caused by reverse causation between electricity quality and household income. We find that households experiencing better electricity quality decrease the probability of remaining in the lowest income category by 23%.

Suggested Citation

  • Vanessa Mae Pepino & Majah-Leah V. Ravago & Karl Jandoc, 2021. "Does quality of electricity matter? Household-level evidence from the Philippines," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(4), pages 720-747, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjapxx:v:26:y:2021:i:4:p:720-747
    DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2020.1840492
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13547860.2020.1840492
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/13547860.2020.1840492?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Suryadeepto Nag, 2023. "Does Reliable Electricity Mean Lesser Agricultural Labor Wages? Evidence from Indian Villages," Papers 2309.09178, arXiv.org.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rjapxx:v:26:y:2021:i:4:p:720-747. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rjap .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.