Experimental Evidence on the Demand for and Costs of Rural Electrification

Acknowledgements: This research was supported by the Development Impact Lab (USAID Cooperative Agreements AID-OAA-A-13-00002 and AIDOAA-A-12-00011, part of the USAID Higher Education Solutions Network), the Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute, the Blum Center for Developing Economies, the U.C. Center for Energy and Environmental Economics, the Center for Effective Global Action, the Weiss Family Program Fund for Research in Development Economics, the World Bank, and an anonymous donor. We thank Francis Meyo, Victor Bwire, Susanna Berkouwer, Elisa Cascardi, Corinne Cooper, Eric Hsu, Radhika Kannan, Anna Kasimatis, and Tomas Monárrez for excellent research assistance, as well as colleagues at Innovations for Poverty Action Kenya. This research would not have been possible without the support and cooperation of partners at the Rural Electrification Authority and Kenya Power. Hunt Allcott, David Atkin, Raj Chetty, Carson Christiano, Maureen Cropper, Aluma Dembo, Esther Duflo, Kelsey Jack, Marc Jeuland, Asim Khwaja, Mushfiq Mobarak, Samson Ondiek, Billy Pizer, Matthew Podolsky, Javier Rosa, Mark Rosenzweig, Manisha Shah, Jay Taneja, Duncan Thomas, Chris Timmins, Liam Wren-Lewis, and many seminar participants have provided helpful comments. All errors remain our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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