Do Clean Cookstoves Reduce Biomass Fuel Consumption?
Abstract
Despite widespread global efforts to promote clean cookstoves, surprisingly little
is known about whether they actually deliver reduced biomass fuel consumption when
used in real-world settings. Using cross-sectional household survey data from Uttar
Pradesh (UP) and Uttarakhand (UK) in India, we examine the impact of clean cookstoves
on three key outcomes related to solid fuel consumption and stove use with OLS regression,
propensity score matching, and the Heckman two-step estimator. Results from the Heckman
two-step estimator suggest that using a clean cookstove is associated with daily reductions
of 3.9 kg of biomass fuel, 83 fewer minutes cooking on traditional stoves, and 0.5
fewer hours collecting biomass fuels. Our results support the idea that efforts to
promote clean stoves among poor rural households in India can lead to reductions in
solid fuel use and time spent cooking on traditional stoves, and that any rebound
effect towards greater amounts of cooking on multiple stoves, is not sufficient to
eliminate these gains.
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Master's projectDepartment
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Brooks, Nina (2014). Do Clean Cookstoves Reduce Biomass Fuel Consumption?. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/8420.More Info
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