Environment and Climate Change

This project assesses medium-term economic impacts of improved electricity reliability by leveraging persistent discontinuities in electricity reliability across nearby areas in Kenya that are serviced by different feeder lines.

This project employs a randomised controlled trial and the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism to examine the impact of a solar light subsidy on small firm owners' firm and household outcomes with different exposure to blackout risks in Nakuru, Kenya.

This project analyses data from two major policy events that occurred in Togo in 2019: the scattered rollout of a subsidy program for solar home systems and a sudden expansion of mobile money agents.

This project assesses the impact of in-situ rice straw incorporation using a rotavator on improving soil health, specifically through enhanced soil organic carbon (SOC) levels. Smallholder farmers in Odisha, India, heavily rely on kharif-season (rainfed) paddy cultivation. This intervention evaluates how straw incorporation into the soil after harvest can improve soil health and enhance carbon sequestration over multiple growing seasons. 

This is a randomised controlled trial testing whether providing information and research findings about the benefits of adopting environmentally-friendly technology can lead to increased adoption rates among MSMEs in India.

Air pollution is a major health concern in many Indian cities exposing millions of people to extremely toxic air. Stubble burning is a major contributor to air pollution in northern parts of India, where it accounts for up to 40% of air pollution [SAFAR, 2019]. After conducting a pilot randomised controlled trial in August 2022 with 205 farmers, researchers finds that providing information and bio-decomposers to farmers reduced burning by 29% in comparison to control group farmers.