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household electricity demand that addresses these difficulties. We estimate the model using data for a representative sample of …Recent efforts to restructure and partially deregulate electricity markets have renewed interest in understanding how … California households, and summarize how electricity demand elasticities vary in that state. We then use the model to analyze the …
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This paper presents estimates of the customer-level demand for electricity by industrial and commercial customers … purchasing electricity according to the half-hourly energy prices from the England and Wales (E&W) electricity market. These … customers also face the possibility of a demand charge on their electricity consumption during the three half-hour periods that …
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empirical relevance of this phenomenon is scarce. We study the dynamics of residential electricity demand by exploiting price … electricity suppliers on behalf of their residents. Using a flexible difference-in-differences matching approach, we estimate a …
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critical peak pricing intervention reduces electricity consumption by 14%. Using unique high frequency appliance-level data, we …
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electricity consumption time series index from 1980 to 2006. We show that certain micro determinants of household electricity …We use detailed microeconomic data to investigate why aggregate residential electricity consumption in California has … been flat since 1980. Using unique micro data, we document the role that household demographics and ideology play in …
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other household members. If individual usage is imperfectly observed (as is typical for water and electricity) and family …Water use and electricity use, which generate negative environmental externalities, are susceptible to a second … externality problem: with household-level billing, each person enjoys private benefits of consumption but shares the cost with …
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variation in the price of electricity, a key input into groundwater extraction, we find that farmers are very price responsive …: we estimate large price elasticities of demand for electricity (-1.17) and groundwater (-1.12). We demonstrate that crop …
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We analyze several rounds of U.S. import restrictions against washing machines. Using retail price data, we estimate the price effect of these import restrictions by comparing the price changes of washers with those of other appliances. We find that in response to the 2018 tariffs on nearly all...
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We estimate the tax price elasticity of charitable giving using newly-available data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics spanning 2001-2017. We find that households that always itemize are less sensitive to changes in the tax treatment of donations than house-holds that switch itemizing...
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We use price and wage data from McDonald's restaurants to provide evidence on wage increases, labor-saving technology introduction, and price pass-through by a large low-wage employer facing a flurry of minimum wage hikes from 2016-2020. We estimate an elasticity of hourly wage rates with...
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