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Electrification and forest loss in Cote d’Ivoire
[Electrification et perte de forêts en Côte d'Ivoire]

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  • Alpha Ly

    (CEC - Chaire Economie du Climat - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres)

  • Raja R. Chakir

    (UMR PSAE - Paris-Saclay Applied Economics - AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Anna Creti

    (CEC - Chaire Economie du Climat - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres)

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the impact of electrification on household practices linked to defor-estation, such as the size of arable farms and biomass fuel consumption, in Cote d'Ivoire. First, weˆdevelop a theoretical framework based on the agricultural households heterogeneous framework by Angelsen(1999) to articulate a potential theoretical link between electrification and the expansion of arablefarms. Second, using the most recent four waves of the household Living Standards Measurement Sur-veys (1998, 2002, 2008, and 2015) and a pseudo-panel fixed effects regression model, we demonstratethat an increased rate of electricity access significantly reduces both the average size of arable farms andbiomass fuel consumption (specifically, firewood collection from forests). Our findings remain robustacross various alternative specifications (time FE inclusion; time trends inclusion; cocoa price trends in-clusion; probit model; entropy balancing; IPW regression adjustment; nearest-neighbor matching; andpropensity-score matching). Additionally, we identify an electrification threshold of 80%, beyond whichelectrification tends to increase the size of arable farms in the country

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  • Alpha Ly & Raja R. Chakir & Anna Creti, 2023. "Electrification and forest loss in Cote d’Ivoire [Electrification et perte de forêts en Côte d'Ivoire]," Working Papers hal-04296984, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-04296984
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