Assessing Opportunities for Solar Lanterns to Improve Educational Outcomes in Rural Off-Grid Regions: Challenges and Lessons from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Stojanovski, Ognen; Thurber, Mark C.; Wolak, Frank A.; Muwowo, George; Harrison, Kat

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3289855

“…There is, however, no consensus on how renewable energy technologies might impact behaviors and welfare in currently-off-grid rural areas. For example, studies in Bangladesh (Kudo et al 2019), Rwanda (Grimm et al 2017), Uganda (Furukawa 2014) and Zambia (Stojanovski et al 2018) find uneven impacts of solar lighting on children's education and academic performance. And there is suggestive evidence of heterogeneous treatment effects even within local areas.…”

Section: F Impacts On Gross Fixed Capital Formation and The Returns T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate, and the Environment

Barrett

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,

Ortiz‐Bobea

²

,

Pham

³

2023

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

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This paper reviews the feedbacks between structural transformation and agriculture, on the one hand, and climate and the natural environment, on the other. The longstanding, dominant economic development narrative largely ignores nature's influence on factor productivity and stocks, even as it increasingly illustrates how agricultural technological change and economic growth affect nature. We articulate some of the missing linkages and pose a range of policy research questions worth exploration concerning structural transformation and the complex feedback among agriculture, nature, and economic growth processes, especially in the lowincome agrarian nations of the Global South.

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“…There is, however, no consensus on how renewable energy technologies might impact behaviors and welfare in currently-off-grid rural areas. For example, studies in Bangladesh (Kudo et al 2019), Rwanda (Grimm et al 2017), Uganda (Furukawa 2014) and Zambia (Stojanovski et al 2018) find uneven impacts of solar lighting on children's education and academic performance. And there is suggestive evidence of heterogeneous treatment effects even within local areas.…”

Section: F Impacts On Gross Fixed Capital Formation and The Returns To Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate and the Environment

Barrett

¹

,

Ortiz‐Bobea

²

,

Pham³

2021

SSRN Journal

1

0

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This paper reviews the feedbacks between structural transformation and agriculture, on the one hand, and climate and the natural environment, on the other. The longstanding, dominant economic development narrative largely ignores nature's influence on factor productivity and stocks, even as it increasingly illustrates how agricultural technological change and economic growth affect nature. We articulate some of the missing linkages and pose a range of policy research questions worth exploration concerning structural transformation and the complex feedback among agriculture, nature, and economic growth processes, especially in the lowincome agrarian nations of the Global South.

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