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Differential and distributional effects of energy efficiency surveys : evidence from electricity consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Rustamov, Galib - 2015
household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with …
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Information nudges, subsidies, and crowding out of attention : field evidence from energy efficiency investments
Rodemeier, Matthias; Löschel, Andreas - 2023
How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial savings of LED lighting. Information has two effects: It...
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The economics of financial stress
Sergeyev, Dmitriy; Lian, Chen; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2023
We study the psychological costs of financial constraints and their economic consequences. Using a representative survey of U.S. households, we document the prevalence of financial stress in U.S. households and a strong relationship between financial stress and measures of financial constraints....
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A life-cycle theory analysis of French household electricity demand
Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …
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Energy expenditure in Egypt: empirical evidence based on a quantile regression approach
Belaid, Fateh; Rault, Christophe - 2021
This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 … Regularization technique to untangle the spectrum of household energy expenditure. Unsurprisingly, income, age, household size … impact, while socio-economic attributes have a much larger one. The largest variations in household energy expenditures in …
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The causal effects of inflation uncertainty on households' beliefs and actions
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Coibion, … - 2024
and second moments of inflation expectations separately affect subsequent household decisions. We document several key … encourages household job search, leading to higher subsequent employment among the unemployed and less under-employment among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015069388
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Are income and consumption taxes ever really equivalent? : evidence from a real-effort experiment with real goods
Blumḳin, Tomer; Ruffle, Bradley J.; Ganun, Yosef - 2010
The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and laborincome (wage) taxes. We introduce an experimental paradigm in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this paradigm to test whether a labor-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901593
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Locus of control and the labor market
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2014
This paper reviews the role of locus of control in the labor market. I begin with a discussion of the conceptual origins of locus of control, including its relationship to related concepts such as self-efficacy, motivation, and self-control. The relationship between locus of control and labor...
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Does marriage make people happy, or do happy people get married?
Stutzer, Alois (contributor); Frey, Bruno S. (contributor) - 2005
This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential,...
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Policy evaluation and economic policy advice
Schmidt, Christoph M. (contributor) - 2007
Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...
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