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The Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-Benefits of Energy-Saving Technology

Published:2020-10 Issue:4 Volume:102 Page:779-792
ISSN:0034-6535
Container-title:The Review of Economics and Statistics
language:en
Short-container-title:Review of Economics and Statistics

Author:

Adhvaryu Achyuta¹,Kala Namrata²,Nyshadham Anant³

Affiliation:

1. University of Michigan, NBER, BREAD, and Good Business Lab

2. MIT Sloan School of Management, BREAD, NBER, and JPAL

3. Boston College, NBER, University of Michigan, and Good Business Lab

Abstract

We study the adoption of energy-efficient LED lighting in garment factories around Bangalore, India. Combining daily production line–level data with weather data, we estimate a negative, nonlinear productivity-temperature gradient. We find that LED lighting raises productivity on hot days. Using the firm's costs data, we estimate that the payback period for LED adoption is less than one-third the length after accounting for productivity co-benefits. The average factory in our data gains about $2,880 in power consumption savings and about $7,500 in productivity gains.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Economics and Econometrics,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/rest_a_00886

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