Her choice of an instrument for placement of the electricity grid is the gradient of the land in which the community is located. [...] In order to solve for the endogeneity of electrification the author uses the introduction of a new agricultural technology intensive in irrigation (the Green Revolution) and the uneven distribution of groundwater as a natural experiment to develop an instrumental variable. [...] Two years after the beginning of the program, the electrification rate of encouraged households was 19 percentage points higher than that of the rest of the sam- ple. [...] A possible reason for the lack of an effect in some of these studies may be the quality of the power supply. [...] In order to investigate the long term effects of electrification we need to focus on the outcomes of connecting the grid in developed countries.
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