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Egg-Timer: Agriculture, Forests and Land Use Change Location: D-111 Session Chair: Aaron Smith, UC Berkeley | |
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Rural Electrification in the Brazilian Amazon: No Environment–Development Tradeoff 1: Salisbury University, United States of America; 2: California State University, Fullerton Rural electrification is widely promoted as a pathway to improve well-being, yet its environmental consequences remain less well understood—especially in forest frontiers where infrastructure can shift land-use incentives. We estimate the impacts of gridbased electrification on household livelihoods and deforestation in a rural settlement region in the Brazilian Amazon. Combining longitudinal household survey data with property boundaries and satellite-based land-cover, we implement a heterogeneity robust difference-in-differences estimator for staggered treatment timing. We find that electrification increased cattle-related income and appliance ownership by economically meaningful amounts, with impacts emerging over the medium term rather than immediately after connection. In contrast, we find no detectable effect of electrification on annual deforestation at the property level and can rule out large increases relative to pre-treatment clearing rates. The results suggest that electrification can support rural development without exacerbating land-use change in frontier contexts where production opportunities include intensification. | |