Fertility and rural electrification in Bangladesh

• 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...