Rural Electrification and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Nigeria

Autor: Claire Salmon, Jeremy Tanguy
Přispěvatelé: Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie (IREGE), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Groupe d'Analyse des Itinéraires et des Niveaux Salariaux (GAINS), Le Mans Université (UM), Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques (TEPP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Economics and Econometrics
Labour economics
developing countrie s
copulas
Sociology and Political Science
020209 energy
Geography
Planning and Development
Time allocation
02 engineering and technology
Development
joint decision-making
labor supply
Electrification
11. Sustainability
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Economics
Rural electrification
rural electrification
labor supply
developing countrie s
joint decision-making
bi- variate hurdle model
copulas
Energy poverty
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics
JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C3 - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models • Multiple Variables/C.C3.C30 - General
bi- variate hurdle model
[QFIN]Quantitative Finance [q-fin]
JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C3 - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models • Multiple Variables/C.C3.C35 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models • Discrete Regressors • Proportions
1. No poverty
JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor/J.J2.J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
developing countries
JEL: O - Economic Development
Innovation
Technological Change
and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O13 - Agriculture • Natural Resources • Energy • Environment • Other Primary Products
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Working time
Shock (economics)
JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C3 - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models • Multiple Variables/C.C3.C31 - Cross-Sectional Models • Spatial Models • Treatment Effect Models • Quantile Regressions • Social Interaction Models
13. Climate action
Spouse
joint decision making
8. Economic growth
rural electrification
Rural area
Zdroj: World Development
World Development, Elsevier, 2016, 82, pp.48-68. ⟨10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.01.016⟩
ISSN: 2010-2011
0305-750X
Popis: International audience; In Nigeria, the most populated African country, rural electrification is a critical issue because of the low household electrification rate and the poor quality of the grid. This energy poverty has harmful economic and social consequences in rural areas, such as low productivity , lack of income-generating opportunities and poor housing conditions. In this paper, we consider electrification as a technical shock that may affect household time allocation. Using the 2010-2011 General Household Survey, we investigate how electrification affects female and male labor supply decisions within rural households in Nigeria. Focusing on husband-wife data, we consider potential dependence in spouses' labor supply decisions and address the challenge of zero hours of work using a recent copula-based bivariate hurdle model (Deb et al. 2013). In addition, an instrumental variable strategy helps identify the causal effect of elec-trification. Our results underline that this dependence in spouses' labor supply decisions is critical to consider when assessing the impact of electrification on these outcomes. Electrifi-cation increases the working time of both spouses in the separate assessments, but the joint analysis emphasizes only a positive effect of electrification on husbands' working time. In line with the household labor supply approach, our findings highlight that, within the household, the labor supply decisions of one spouse significantly affect those of the other spouse. Thus, if we neglect the effect of electrification on the spouse of the individual examined, we may fail to assess how this individual has been actually affected by this common shock on both spouses. Our results suggest that these within-household relationships promote husbands' working time at the expense of wives' working time.
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