#  The Cookstove Conundrum 

 





April 23, 2012

 

 

[Rema Hanna](/people/rema-hanna) and [Edward Glaeser](/people/edward-glaeser), Faculty Fellows of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP), and [Michael Greenstone](/people/michael-greenstone), HEEP Associate Scholar, were featured in a [*New York Times*](http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/the-cookstove-conundrum/) article on programs to distribute clean cookstoves to poor rural areas in the developing world. Such stoves have the potential to reduce indoor air pollution, with attendant environmental and health benefits, but these HEEP affiliates argue that behavioral factors limit the realization of the technology’s potential. See also a related [working paper](/file_url/137) by Hanna, Greenstone, and colleague Esther Duflo.



 

 

 



 

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