Title: Replication Data for: Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

Type Dataset Duflo, Esther, Greenstone, Michael, Hanna, Rema (2015): Replication Data for: Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/D2WXBF

Authors: Duflo, Esther (J-PAL, MIT) ; Greenstone, Michael (University of Chicago) ; Hanna, Rema (Harvard University, J-PAL) ; Duflo, Esther (J-PAL, MIT) ; Greenstone, Michael (University of Chicago) ; Hanna, Rema (Harvard University, J-PAL) ;

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Summary

Laboratory studies suggest that improved cooking stoves can reduce indoor air pollution, improve health, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. We provide evidence, from a large-scale randomized trial in India, on the benefits of a common, laboratory-validated stove with a four-year follow-up. While smoke inhalation initially falls, this effect disappears by year two. We find no changes across health outcomes or greenhouse gas emissions. Households used the stoves irregularly and inappropriately, failed to maintain them, and usage declined over time. This study underscores the need to test environmental technologies in real-world settings where behavior may undermine potential impacts.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/D2WXBF

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2015
• Submitted: May 21, 2015
• Updated: July 25, 2018

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

Format

electronic resource

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