Fertility and rural electrification in Bangladesh

Fertility and rural electrification in Bangladesh

We use contemporaneous and retrospective panel datasets to examine the household-level relationship between fertility and access to electricity in Bangladesh. We find that access to electricity reduces fertility by about 0.2 children over a period of five years or total fertility rate by about 1.2 i...

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Main Authors: FUJII, Tomoki, SHONCHOY, Abu S.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
Subjects:
Bangladesh
Infrastructure
Television
Difference-in-differences
Retrospective panel data
Asian Studies
Behavioral Economics
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2448
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3447/viewcontent/Fertility_rural_electric_2020_av.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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