Table 1.
Efficiency cookstove |
Chimney cookstove |
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Initial acceptance |
Refusal† | Final acceptance |
Initial acceptance |
Refusal† | Final acceptance |
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Independent variable | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
Subsidy (50%) | 0.252*** | 0.256* | −0.134* | 0.116** | 0.079 | 0.031 | 0.186** | −0.132** | 0.054** | 0.065 |
(0.085) | (0.136) | (0.070) | (0.045) | (0.083) | (0.062) | (0.071) | (0.054) | (0.024) | (0.041) | |
Household wealth index‡ | 0.061*** | −0.036 | 0.019** | 0.061*** | −0.028* | 0.002 | ||||
(0.013) | (0.022) | (0.008) | (0.016) | (0.016) | (0.003) | |||||
Household expenditures | 0.000* | −0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000*** | −0.000 | 0.000 | ||||
(0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | |||||
Children under age 5 y, n | −0.042** | 0.004 | −0.017* | 0.002 | −0.001 | −0.009* | ||||
(0.019) | (0.031) | (0.009) | (0.026) | (0.014) | (0.004) | |||||
Region (Hatiya upazilla) | 0.013 | −0.070 | 0.024 | −0.016 | 0.127** | −0.031** | ||||
(0.084) | (0.074) | (0.026) | (0.077) | (0.056) | (0.013) | |||||
Subsidy (50%) × household wealth index | −0.009 | 0.016 | 0.016 | 0.027** | ||||||
(0.022) | (0.019) | (0.022) | (0.013) | |||||||
Subsidy (50%) × household expenditures | 0.000 | 0.000 | −0.000*** | −0.000 | ||||||
(0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | |||||||
Subsidy (50%) × children under age 5 y, n | 0.058* | 0.029 | −0.022 | 0.014 | ||||||
(0.033) | (0.025) | (0.042) | (0.012) | |||||||
Subsidy (50%) × region (Hatiya upazilla) | −0.167 | −0.049 | −0.066 | −0.031 | ||||||
(0.159) | (0.086) | (0.099) | (0.038) | |||||||
Constant | 0.233*** | 0.228*** | 0.866*** | 0.046*** | 0.041* | 0.314*** | 0.227*** | 0.892*** | 0.020** | 0.034* |
(0.041) | (0.033) | (0.059) | (0.013) | (0.020) | (0.044) | (0.059) | (0.056) | (0.009) | (0.017) | |
Observations | 1,184 | 1,183 | 410 | 1,184 | 1,183 | 1,096 | 1,095 | 360 | 1,096 | 1,095 |
R2 | 0.069 | 0.116 | 0.037 | 0.037 | 0.059 | 0.001 | 0.057 | 0.086 | 0.016 | 0.051 |
Robust SEs clustered by village (the unit of randomization) are given in parentheses below values in all specifications. *Significance at 90%; **significance at 95%; ***significance at 99%. Data on household wealth, expenditures, and number of children under 5 are taken from survey responses given by the male household head.
†Dependent variable Refusal is only defined for those households who initially accepted the cookstove offer. Note that this is a nonrandom subsample of all households.
‡The household wealth index was constructed by using principal component analysis on the basis of five variables: the respondent’s self-assessment of the household’s affluence on a scale of 1–5 and measures of the four separate categories of household assets—land, vehicles, animals, and cash savings.