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Thematic Session: Environmental and Social Externalities of Resource Extraction (Streaming) Location: B009 Session Chair: Sayahnika Basu, James Madison University | |
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Keeping Gorillas in the Mist: The Environmental Economics of Clean Cooking in the D.R. Congo 1: Centre for Environmental Economics - Montpellier, INRAE; 2: Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp; 3: Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon & CEPR; 4: Virunga Foundation, DRC; 5: Research Foundation Flanders; 6: University of Leuven Can subsidized electric cooking accelerate the clean cooking transition while remaining economically viable? In a randomized experiment with 1,594 households in Goma, DRC, we distributed fully subsidized Electric Pressure Cookers (EPCs). Usage was high - 25% of meals - and charcoal use fell by 34%. Households cut overall monthly energy spending by $5.76 but increased electricity purchases by $2.75, enabling subsidy recovery through a ’razor and blade’ model. After just one year of usage, the welfare gains - including lower CO2 emissions and conservation outcomes for the endangered Mountain Gorillas - are almost twice higher than the cost of the subsidy. | |