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AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 200-231Publisher
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/app.5.2.200
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We estimate the development effects of electrification across Brazil over the period 1960-2000. We simulate a time series of hypothetical electricity grids for Brazil for the period 1960-2000 that show how the grid would have evolved had infrastructure investments been made based solely on geography-based cost considerations. Using the model as an instrument, we document large positive effects of electrification on development that are underestimated when one fails to account for endogenous targeting. Broad-based improvement in labor productivity across sectors and regions rather than general equilibrium re-sorting appears to be the likely mechanism by which these development gains are realized. (JEL H54, L94, O11, O13, Q41, Q43)
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