Clean Energy Access : Gender Disparity, Health, and Labor Supply

Verma, Anjali P.; Imelda, Imelda

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Clean Energy Access : Gender Disparity, Health, and Labor Supply

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Economía	es
dc.contributor.author	Verma, Anjali P.
dc.contributor.author	Imelda, Imelda
dc.contributor.editor	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía	es
dc.contributor.funder	European Commission	en
dc.date.accessioned	2019-12-18T17:55:37Z
dc.date.available	2019-12-18T17:55:37Z
dc.date.issued	2019-12-18
dc.description.abstract	Women are known to bear the largest share of health, time and labor supply burden associated with a lack of modern energy. In this paper, we study the impact of clean energy access on adult health and labor supply outcomes by exploiting a nationwide rollout of clean cooking fuel program in Indonesia. This program led to a large-scale fuel switching, from kerosene, a dirty fuel, to liquid petroleum gas, a significantly cleaner and efficient cooking fuel than kerosene. Using rich longitudinal survey data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and the staggered structure of the program roll-out, we find that access to clean cooking fuel led to a significant improvement in women's health, particularly among those who spend most of their time indoors doing housework. We also find an increase in the labor supplied by these women on both intensive and extensive margins. This suggests that having clean and efficient cooking fuel may not only improve women's health but also improve their productivity, subsequently allowing them to supply more market labor. For men, we find an increase in the labor supplied only along the intensive margin, with a higher increase among men in households where women accrued the largest health and labor benefits from the program. These results highlight the role of clean energy in reducing gender-disparity in health and labor participation and point to the existence of positive externality from improved health and productivity of women on other members of the household.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Imelda gratefully acknowledges support from European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (772331)	en
dc.identifier.issn	2340-5031	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/29397
dc.identifier.uxxi	DT/0000001738	es
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working paper. Economics	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	19-19	es
dc.relation.projectID	info:eurepo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/772331	es
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.jel	H51	es
dc.subject.jel	I15	es
dc.subject.jel	I18	es
dc.subject.jel	J22	es
dc.subject.jel	O13	es
dc.subject.jel	Q48	es
dc.subject.jel	Q53	es
dc.subject.other	Gender Inequality	en
dc.subject.other	Energy Access	en
dc.subject.other	Health	en
dc.subject.other	Labor Supply	en
dc.subject.other	Indonesia	en
dc.title	Clean Energy Access : Gender Disparity, Health, and Labor Supply	en
dc.type	working paper	*
dc.type.hasVersion	AO	*
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