fuelwood in cooking is a leading cause of indoor air pollution. Using household data from India, we show that households …Fuelwood collection is often cited as the most important cause of deforestation in developing countries. Use of …

effectiveness of demand-based policies, and their impact across household groups, in a more electrified future. … consumption, using a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-frequency electricity data, and default enrollment …

This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …

price elasticity of energy demand and the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) after paying the energy bill. We find that …

Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal …'s presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation can be legal or illegal in the model: each district decides how much to …

Free trade often leads to resource depletion, such as deforestation in the tropics. This paper first presents a dynamic …

reductions is to encourage reductions in deforestation. But any such strategy must confront a basic problem: agents that might be …