Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155771 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Ruhr Economic Papers No. 680
Publisher: 
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen
Abstract: 
More than 3 billion people use wood fuels for their daily cooking needs, with detrimental health implications related to smoke emissions. Global initiatives to disseminate clean cooking stoves emphasize technologies that are either expensive, such as electricity and gasifier stoves, or for which supply chains hardly reach rural areas, such as LPG. This emphasis neglects that many households in the developing world cook outdoors. Our calculations demonstrate that for such households, already the use of less expensive biomass cooking stoves can substantially reduce smoke exposure. The costeffectiveness of clean cooking policies can thus be improved by taking cooking location and ventilation into account.
Subjects: 
air pollution
health behavior
energy access
JEL: 
Q53
I12
O13
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-3-86788-788-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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