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Kevin Rowe
Kevin Rowe is an Economist/Data Scientist at Uber. Kevin completed his Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 2020. Prior to beginning his Ph.D., Kevin was a Research Fellow at Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard, where he worked on several randomised field evaluations of reforms, to air and water pollution control policies in India. Kevin has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Hamilton College. Kevin was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and has also worked at the World Resources Institute.
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Escaping the subsidy-quality trap in India’s retail electricity market
Cross-subsidies in retail electricity tariffs leave distribution utilities with neither the incentive nor the capital to improve reliability, particularly for their most subsidised consumers. Using billing data from a private distribution company in Delhi, this article shows that while electricity price subsidies are relatively effective in improving the welfare of poorer residential consumers, reducing power prices for commercial and industrial consumers can help utilities raise more revenue and enhance service quality across the system.
