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How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?
Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023
Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...
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Time for clean energy? : cleaner fuels and women's time in home production
Afridi, Farzana; Debnath, Sisir; Dinkelman, Taryn; … - 2022
In much of the developing world, cooking accounts for most of women's time in home production. Does reliance on biomass for cooking drive this time burden? To assess time-savings from shifting towards cleaner fuels, we revisit a clean energy information experiment in rural India. Treatment...
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Depression in the house : the effects of household air pollution from solid fuel use in China
Liu, Yan; Chen, Xi; Yan, Zhijun - 2019
of household air pollution (HAP) on mental health. We investigated the causal link between HAP exposure from the use of …
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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 effect of early life health on later life home care use : the mediating role of household composition
Bijwaard, Govert; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2018
effect is mediated through household composition. We use Dutch administrative data on men born in 1944-1947 who were examined …
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The effect of renewable energy development on carbon emission reduction : an empirical analysis for the EU-15 countries
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - 2014
The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...
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Exploring the causality links between energy and employment in African countries
Arouri, Mohamed; BenYoussef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem; … - 2014
Using a bootstrap panel analysis that allows for cross-country dependence, without requiring the use of pre-tests for a unit root, we study the causality links between energy use and employment for a sample of 16 African countries over the 1991-2010 period (according to availability of...
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Energy consumption and health outcomes in Africa
BenYoussef, Adel; Lannes, Laurence; Rault, Christophe; … - 2016
We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy, greenhouse effect, and government expenditure per capita) for a sample of 16 African countries over the period 1971-2010 (according to availability of countries' data). We use the...
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The main support mechanisms to finance renewable energy development
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Considering that the major part of greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide, there is a global concern aimed at reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, major consumer countries are looking for alternative sources of energy to avoid the impact of higher fossil fuel prices and political instability in...
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