scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of …The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several … individual and groups of countries and to analyze the environmental effects of energy policies. Previous studies have analyzed …

Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers, amounting … households in consumption smoothing by reducing vulnerability to economic shocks. In particular, we explore the effects of … remittances on school enrolment and child work in Ecuador. Identification relies on instrumental variables, exploiting information …

In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national …

Energy subsidies are used widely. Although adverse from an efficiency perspective, subsidies confer private benefits on … overcoming the barriers to reform. The starting point is to look at the motives lying behind the adoption of energy subsidies … then looks at the characteristics of countries that use energy subsidies. Countries with weak institutions – often non …

beneficial with respect to environmental quality, the energy turnaround implies increasing electricity prices for private …Germany plays a pioneering role in replacing conventional power plants with renewable energy sources. While this is … between labor and electricity as input factors. In this paper, we estimate cross-price elasticities between electricity and …

extend DST by one month beginning in 2007. However, projections that these extensions will reduce electricity consumption …Several countries are considering extending Daylight Saving Time (DST) in order to conserve energy, and the U.S. will … triple differences specification, we show that the extension did not conserve electricity, and that a prominent simulation …

' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and qualitative methods we find that political connections significantly … entrepreneurs engage in bribery, and who obtain government contracts alleviate electricity problems and perform better. …

empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the … hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector income in some of the quantiles, if the level of durable goods consumption … income among the public sector workers. The 2004-05 survey of income and consumption by workers in both private and public …