Impacts of Low-Cost-Connection Offers in Tanzania: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (In Focus Brief)
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Impacts of Low-Cost-Connection Offers in Tanzania: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (In Focus Brief)

Published: Mar 29, 2017
Publisher: Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research
Global Energy
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Associated Project

Tanzania Energy-Sector Impact Evaluation

Time frame: 2008-2017

Prepared for:

Millennium Challenge Corporation

Authors

Duncan Chaplin

Arif Mamun

Ali Protik

John Schurrer

Divya Vohra

Kristine Bos

Key Findings

Impacts of low-cost-connection offers:

  • Increased connection rates by 13 percentage points.
  • Increased electricity consumption, consumption of grid electricity, ownership of electric tools, time spent watching television, and perceived safety.
  • Increased reported illness among children and youth.
  • Reduced poverty, as measured by per capita daily consumption.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s energy-sector project was designed to promote economic growth and curb poverty in Tanzania. Mathematica conducted an evaluation of two project components: impacts of building new lines to the electricity grid; and outcomes from offering low-cost-connections to households in a subset of communities. This brief summarizes the impacts of low-cost-connection offers in Tanzania.

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