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Krishnapriya Perumbillissery

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Do women’s decision-making roles influence household energy choices? Evidence from South Africa

Journal article Environmental Research: Energy · June 30, 2026 AbstractDespite women bearing primary responsibility for cooking and fuel collection in low- and middle-income countries, they often have limited influence over household purchases such as cookstoves. Thi ... Full text Cite

Gendered demand for environmental health technologies: Evidence of complementarities from stove auctions in India

Journal article Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics · December 1, 2024 We study if prior exposure to one environmental health technology – improved sanitation – complements or substitutes for additional household investments in another such technology — an electric induction cookstove. We conducted a cookstove demand revealin ... Full text Cite

Mitigating agricultural residue burning: challenges and solutions across land classes in Punjab, India

Journal article Environmental Research Food Systems · June 1, 2024 India faces significant air quality challenges, contributing to local health and global climate concerns. Despite a national ban on agricultural residue burning and various incentive schemes, farmers in northern India continue to face difficulties in curbi ... Full text Cite

Frameworks, methods and evidence connecting modern domestic energy services and gender empowerment

Journal article Nature Energy · May 1, 2023 The world remains far from meeting Sustainable Development Goals 5 (gender equality) and 7 (universal access to modern energy). Energy access may empower women even as empowered women are more likely to adopt and use modern energy services. Such bidirectio ... Full text Cite

Gender empowerment and energy access: evidence from seven countries

Journal article Environmental Research Letters · April 1, 2023 Gender equity is connected to modern energy services in many ways, but quantitative empirical work on these connections is limited. We examine the relationship between a multi-dimensional measure of women’s empowerment and access to improved cookstoves, cl ... Full text Cite

Informalization of the formal sector: Evidence from India's manufacturing industries

Journal article Iza Journal of Development and Migration · January 1, 2023 The employment structure of India's formal manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes since the early 2000s with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired workers. Much of the existing literature has attributed the ... Full text Cite

Global forces of change: Implications for forest-poverty dynamics

Journal article Forest Policy and Economics · December 1, 2021 This article examines global trends likely to influence forests and tree-based systems and considers the poverty implications of these interactions. The trends, identified through a series of expert discussions and review of the literature, include: (i) cl ... Full text Cite

Do improved cookstoves save time and improve gender outcomes? Evidence from six developing countries

Journal article Energy Economics · October 1, 2021 Three billion people around the world lack access to affordable and reliable clean cooking energy. The case for clean energy has largely been built around health and or environmental benefits, neglecting potentially sizeable benefit(s): when households hav ... Full text Cite

Building the supply of demand: Experiments in mini-grid demand stimulation

Journal article Development Engineering · January 1, 2021 Solar mini-grids are a key element in strategies to achieve universal access to modern energy by 2030. In many settings mini-grids offer a combination of affordability, reliability, and capacity for productive use of power, moreso than most solar home syst ... Full text Cite

Changing agricultural stubble burning practices in the Indo-Gangetic plains: is the Happy Seeder a profitable alternative?

Journal article International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability · January 1, 2021 Every year after the rice harvest, some 2.5 million farmers in northwest India burn the remaining stubble to prepare their fields for the subsequent wheat crop. Crop residue burning causes massive air pollution affecting millions of people across the Indo- ... Full text Cite

Fields on fire: Alternatives to crop residue burning in India.

Journal article Science (New York, N.Y.) · August 2019 Full text Cite