What Makes Rural Households Use Traditional Fuel? Empirical Evidence from India
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Keywords
Meal production; Modern fuel; Technical efficiency; Traditional fuel; Stochastic frontier analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2016-01-29 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-EFF-2016-01-29 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-ENE-2016-01-29 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2016-01-29 (Environmental Economics)
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