Ethiopia’s population has very low per capita energy consumption and a dominant usage of traditional biomass fuel, due to limited access to electricity. The welfare effects of this on household members, especially women and children, are expected to be large. At the expense of their schooling, children may be forced to walk long distances to collect firewood and limited access to lighting restricts their ability to read at night. Researchers at Addis Ababa University and Bahir Dar University will investigate the effect of energy poverty on children’s schooling in Ethiopia. They will use two waves of the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Panel Survey (ESPS 2018/19 and 2020/21) to examine how multidimensional energy poverty affects children’s past, present, and future schooling. Tools will be employed to consider potential heterogeneity, alternative energy poverty measures, and robustness-checking. Findings will be shared with policymakers to help design child-sensitive policies to avoid energy poverty in future generations.