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Barriers to Electrification for "Under Grid" Households in Rural Kenya
Lee, Kenneth - 2014
evidence. Using a novel dataset of 20,000 geo-tagged structures in rural Western Kenya, we provide descriptive evidence that …
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On the Efficiency of Competitive Electricity Markets With Time-Invariant Retail Prices
Borenstein, Severin - 2003
markets lead to outcomes (prices and investment) that are not first-best, it even fails to achieve the second-best optimum … given the constraint of time-invariant pricing. We then show that attempts to correct the level of investment through taxes … necessarily reduce capacity investment, and it is likely to harm customers that are already on RTP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468774
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Merchant Transmission Investment
Joskow, Paul - 2003
We examine the performance attributes of a merchant transmission investment framework that relies on market driven …' transmission investment to provide the infrastructure to support competitive wholesale markets for electricity. Under a stringent … set of assumptions, the merchant investment model has a remarkable set of attributes that appear to solve the natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469168
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Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver at the Right Time?
Boomhower, Judson P. - 2017
Electricity cannot be cost-effectively stored even for short periods of time. Consequently, wholesale electricity prices vary widely across hours of the day with peak prices frequently exceeding off-peak prices by a factor of ten or more. Most analyses of energy-efficiency policies ignore this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455584
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Level versus Variability Trade-offs in Wind and Solar Generation Investments : The Case of California
Wolak, Frank A. - 2016
Hourly plant-level wind and solar generation output and real-time price data for one year from the California ISO control area is used to estimate the vector of means and the contemporaneous covariance matrix of hourly output and revenues across all wind and solar locations in the state. Annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456183
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Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed
Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive preferences consistent with behavioral features such as loss aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938721
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Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Suri, Tavneet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a non-profit organization were randomly assigned a teammate, a supervisor, and a list of individuals to canvass. This created random variation within teams in the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510534
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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on COVID-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510577
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Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry
Ksoll, Christopher; Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629517
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Money or Power? Financial Infrastructure and Optimal Policy
Berkouwer, Susanna B.; Biscaye, Pierre E.; Hsu, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients … prefer mobile money over electricity transfers of a similar monetary value. But Kenya is an outlier with high mobile money …
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