The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Rural Senegal, 2014.
Gunther Bensch; Jörg Peters. Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Department of Economics.
This paper evaluates take-up and impacts of low-cost improved stoves through a randomized controlled trial. The randomized stove is primarily designed to curb fi rewood consumption but not smoke emissions. Nonetheless, we find considerable effects not only on firewood consumption, but also on smoke exposure and smoke-related disease symptoms – induced by behavioural changes at the intensive margin affecting outside cooking and cooking time due to the new stove.
