Replication Data for "Beer, Beer, Wood, and Welfare ‒ The Impact of Improved Stove Use Among Dolo-Beer Breweries" published in PLOS ONE.

The following files contain the data used in the article M. Grimm and J. Peters (2015), Beer, Beer, Wood, and Welfare ‒ The Impact of Improved Stove Use Among Dolo-Beer Breweries published in PLOS ONE. There are two data sets one collected in 2010 and one in 2012 in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso), both with information about the socio-demographic characteristics of the interviewed breweries, the brewing process including wood consumption and about the awareness and possibly use of improved cooking stoves. Details about the purpose of the data collection and the timing are described in the above mentioned paper. The data is in STATA format. The variables are coded according the used questionnaires which are also accessible here. Users of this data should to cite the above mentioned article. A third data set contains information from a specific household survey that was conducted between February and March 2011 in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso). In the article mentioned above only the sample for Ouagadougou is used. The surveys main purpose was to assess the effectiveness of improved cook stove use among private households. The dataset includes information about total expenditure per capita and expenditure per capita for woodfuels, cooking energy and energy as a whole. Woodfuel consumption used for cooking – wood and charcoal – was also measured in quantity. Details about the purpose of the data collection and the timing are described in the above mentioned paper and in Bensch, Grimm and Peters (2015). The reference is given below. The data is in STATA format. The variables are coded according the used questionnaire which is also accessible here. Users of this data have to cite the above mentioned article and the following article: G. Bensch, M. Grimm and J. Peters (2015), Why do households forego high returns from technology adoption? Evidence from improved cooking stoves in Burkina Faso. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 116: 187-205.