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Right to buy... time to move? : investigating the effect of the right to buy on moving behaviour in the UK
Ham, Maarten van; Williamson, Lee; Feijten, Peteke; … - 2010
One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...
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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
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Short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification : evidence from the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid
Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2017
Electrification among American farm households increased from less than 10 percent to nearly 100 percent over a three decade span, 1930{1960. We exploit the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid to study the short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification on local economies. In the...
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Evaluating the impacts of minigrid electrification in sub-Saharan Africa
Ayhan, Sinem H.; Falchetta, Giacomo; Steckel, Jan Christoph - 2022
A large share of the population of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lacks access to modern energy services. To bridge the electricity access gap, distributed power generation systems such as minigrids and stand-alone photovoltaic systems emerge as attractive options in the power supply solution space....
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Electricity prices, river temperatures and cooling water scarcity
McDermott, Grant R.; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2012
Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...
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Public-private entanglement : entrepreneurship in a hybrid political order, the case of Lebanon
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013
The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...
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Which households respond to electricity peak pricing amid high levels of electrification?
Garnache, Cloé; Hernæs, Øystein; Imenes, Anders Gravir - 2022
We examine heterogeneity in Norwegian households' price responses to critical peak pricing (CPP) on electricity consumption, using a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-frequency electricity data, and default enrollment. Increasing the grid transmission charge by 4,067%...
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Be cautious with the precautionary principle : evidence from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident
Neidell, Matthew; Uchida, Shinsuke; Veronesi, Marcella - 2019
This paper provides a large scale, empirical evaluation of unintended effects from invoking the precautionary principle after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. After the accident, all nuclear power stations ceased operation and nuclear power was replaced by fossil fuels, causing an...
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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 cycle and its response to income variations to help strengthen the energy policy-making process. Our empirical methodology is based on three rich independent microdata surveys...
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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015
data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …
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