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Full Life-cycle Trial Periods as a Way to Stimulate the Adoption of more Efficient Bioenergy Technologies in Rural Senegal

Abstract

This study investigates whether willingness to pay for improved cookstoves, and ultimately their acceptance, is increased by prior experience of use. The research is based on anexperiment conducted among a sample of households that participated in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in 2009 and 2010, located in a rural intervention region of GIZ in Senegal. The Becker-DeGroot-Marschak method was used, coupled with a real purchase offer, to determine households' willingness to pay in an unbiased manner. A complementary household survey was conducted to investigate, among other things, how households make decisions regarding the choice of modern energy options.

Involved Organisations
Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (RWI)
Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Research Center for Economic and Social Development (CRDES)
Duke Sanford School of Public Policy
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Country
Senegal
Funding
Other
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa
Globalproject
No
Year (Time of endline survey or planned endline survey)
2015
Evaluation Method
Randomized Controlled Trial

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