Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2015
Abstract
We use a panel dataset from Bangladesh to examine the relationship between fertility and the adoption of electricity with the latter instrumented by infrastructure development and the quality of service delivery. We find that the adoption of electricity reduces fertility, and this impact is more pronounced when the household already has two or more children. This observation can be explained by a simple household model of time use, in which adoption of electricity affects only the optimal number of children but not necessarily current fertility behavior if the optimal number has not yet been reached.
Keywords
time use, infrastructure, fertility, Bangladesh, ordered probit regression, panel data
Discipline
Behavioral Economics | Economics
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
First Page
1
Last Page
61
Publisher
Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO, Discussion paper No. 521
City or Country
Chiba, Japan
Citation
FUJII, Tomoki and SHONCHOY, Abu S..
Fertility and Rural Electrification in Bangladesh. (2015). 1-61.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1762
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://hdl.handle.net/2344/1432