Energy & Environment
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Charging ahead: Prepaid metering, electricity use, and utility revenue
Prepaid electricity meters are changing how residential customers pay for power across the developing world
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Electricity grid expansion and firm turnover in Indonesia
Electrification generates industrial development by attracting entrants through lowering barriers to entry, and thus increasing competition
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Can electricity access help solve poverty in Kenya?
Ensuring sufficient investment to establish reliable access to comprehensive basic services, beyond electricity, is needed for impacts to be achieved
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How does access to electricity affect people’s lives?
Free electricity connections in rural South African households changed home production technologies and induced more women to work in the market
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Can climate change make us antisocial?
How is global warming likely to impact our behaviour and how we interact with one another?
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How air pollution can impact mental health in China
Bringing down air pollution in China could improve mental health as evidence shows a causal effect of pollutants on depressive symptoms
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Lessons from our polluted past
Data from 19th century Britain highlight the significant effect of air pollution on the infant mortality rate and the ‘urban mortality penalty’
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Curbing leakage in public programmes: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy for LPG subsidies
Transferring subsidies directly to the programme beneficiaries in in-kind transfer programmes can help in reducing leakages
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The limits of rural electrification
Kenya's work connecting rural communities to the national electricity grid allows us to examine the impact of electrification on people's...