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Industrial Productivity in a Hotter World : The Aggregate Implications of Heterogeneous Firm Investment in Air Conditioning
Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2016
. Air conditioning (AC) can greatly reduce this heat exposure. We develop a simple model of air conditioning adoption by … industry-level output, we present aggregation results highlighting how the industry's output is insulated from the heat. Our … empirical analysis of the impacts of heat on total factor productivity in U.S manufacturing yields findings broadly consistent …
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Coal, Smoke, and Death : Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating
Barreca, Alan - 2014
due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality …
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Estimating the Impact of Restructuring on Electricity Generation Efficiency : The Case of the Indian Thermal Power Sector
Malik, Kabir - 2011
We examine the impact of electricity sector restructuring on the operating efficiency of coal-fired power plants in India. Between 1995 and 2009, 85 percent of coal-based generation capacity owned by state governments was unbundled from vertically integrated State Electricity Boards into state...
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Reforming Inefficient Energy Pricing : Evidence from China
Ito, Koichiro - 2020
Inefficient energy pricing hinders economic development in many countries. We examine long-run effects of a recent heating reform in China that replaced a commonly-used fixed-payment system with individually-metered pricing. Using staggered policy rollouts and administrative data on...
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What Matters for Electrification? Evidence from 70 Years of U.S. Home Heating Choices
Davis, Lucas W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The percentage of U.S. homes heated with electricity has increased steadily from 1% in 1950, to 8% in 1970, to 26% in 1990, to 39% in 2018. This paper investigates the key determinants of this increase in electrification using data on heating choices from millions of U.S. households over a...
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The Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change
Newell, Richard G. - 1998
It follows from Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis that rising energy prices in the last two decades should have induced energy-saving innovation. We formulate the hypothesis concretely using a product-characteristics model of energy-using consumer durables, augmenting Hicks' hypothesis to...
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To Go Electric or To Burn Coal? A Randomized Field Experiment of Informational Nudges
Fang, Hanming; Li, King King; Shen, Peiyao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Coal heating in residential homes is an important source of indoor air pollution, leading to detrimental health effects. We conduct a randomized field experiment in northern China using three types of SMS campaigns targeting three potential biases that may hinder the adoption of electric...
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Regulating Conglomerates in China : Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program
Chen, Qiaoyi; Chen, Zhao; Liu, Zhikuo; Suárez Serrato, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study a prominent energy regulation affecting large Chinese manufacturers that are part of broader conglomerates. Using detailed firm-level data and difference-in-differences research designs, we show that regulated firms cut output and shifted production to unregulated firms in the same...
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Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Information and Pricing on Residential Electricity Consumption
Burkhardt, Jesse - 2019
This study examines a field experiment in Texas that includes pricing and informational interventions to encourage energy conservation during summer peak load days when the social cost of generation is the highest. We estimate that our critical peak pricing intervention reduces electricity...
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Dynamic Corrective Taxes with Time-Varying Salience
Gilbert, Ben - 2018
The intermittency of payment for many goods creates a disconnect between paying and consuming such that the marginal price is not always salient when consumption decisions are made. This paper derives optimal dynamic corrective taxes when there are externalities as well as internalities from...
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