Improved Biomass Cookstove Use in the Longer Run : Results from a Field Experiment in Rural Ethiopia (English)

This paper reports on electronically-monitored improved use of the "Mirt" biomass stove in Ethiopia over a relatively long period of three-and-a-half years, using stove use data collected at five points in time. The results show that 62 percent of the households surveyed still retained their stoves after more than three years, which is a low level of abandonment, as the lifetime of the Mirt stove is approximately five years. Dis-adoption of the stove...

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Mekonnen,Alemu;

Beyene,Abebe D.;

Bluffstone,Randall Ames;

Dissanayake,Sahan;

Gebreegziabher,Zenebe;

LaFave,Daniel;

Martinsson,Peter;

Toman,Michael A.;
Document Date
2020/06/08
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9272
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Ethiopia,
Region
Eastern And Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2020/06/08
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Improved Biomass Cookstove Use in the Longer Run : Results from a Field Experiment in Rural Ethiopia
Keywords
development research group

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Mekonnen,Alemu; Beyene,Abebe D.; Bluffstone,Randall Ames; Dissanayake,Sahan; Gebreegziabher,Zenebe; LaFave,Daniel; Martinsson,Peter; Toman,Michael A..

Improved Biomass Cookstove Use in the Longer Run : Results from a Field Experiment in Rural Ethiopia (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9272 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/295391591620740125

Improved Biomass Cookstove Use in the Longer Run : Results from a Field Experiment in Rural Ethiopia (English)

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