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Lighting up Bihar

Electricity is not an entitlement: How social norms constrain access to electricity

Project report 27 Mar 2020 Energy

Authors

Robin Burgess

Director, IGC and Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Michael Greenstone

Milton Friedman Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

Nicholas Ryan

Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University

Anant Sudarshan

Executive Director (South Asia), University of Chicago

Matei Alexianu

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