Household electricity consumption inefficiency and poverty: Evidence from Ghana

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Key Messages 

Improvements in household electricity consumption resulting from efficiency improvements have the potential to reduce household electricity expenditure, and consequently the level of poverty among households. However, little is known about the extent to which improvement in electricity consumption efficiency can reduce poverty. Our study finds that: 

Climate Change, Energy, Policy Design

La autonomía universitaria en Chile: entre el Estado y el Mercado (1981-2020)

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on

El presente artículo desarrolla una discusión conceptual y jurídica de la autonomía universitaria y su aplicación en Chile a través de la distinción y análisis de tres periodos de reforma en materia de educación superior desde el 1981 a 2020. La contribución central de este estudio es incluir en su análisis una nueva etapa de reforma (Ley N° 21.091) que cambia profundamente tanto la normativa como las instituciones que rigen a los centros de educación superior y, hasta el momento, no ha sido explorado por parte de la literatura especializada.

Policy Design

The multigenerational impacts of educational expansion: Evidence from Vietnam

Submitted by Luat Do on
EfD Authors:

We investigate the multigenerational effects of a primary school expansion program in Vietnam. In the directly affected generation, the expansion increases educational attainment, literacy, non-agricultural economic activity, earnings and the intergenerational educational mobility. It increases human capital investments in the children of the directly affected generation, with increased educational expenditures, school enrollment, and health investments, and a reduction in child labor.

Policy Design