In the absence of first-best climate policy, energy efficiency has figured prominently among strategies to reduce … Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED). This paper examines the effects of LEED certification on energy efficiency in … certification on average energy consumption. This reflects the fact that energy use is one of a number of attributes that receives …

in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial … ambiguous and highly dependent on the information design. Informing consumers that an LED saves 90% in annual energy costs …

technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Increased energy development likely creates both …

Famine on the likelihood of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that a one unit increase in the intensity of the … probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood, depending on the exact specification and measure of energy poverty. We find … to be in energy poverty later in life. These findings are robust to alternative ways of measuring childhood adversity and …

We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … probability of being an entrepreneur. The results are robust to various checks, including alternative measures of energy poverty …

cycle and its response to income variations to help strengthen the energy policy-making process. Our empirical methodology … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …

mortality peaks in winter, and a higher heating price increases exposure to cold by reducing heating use. It also raises energy … variation in the energy source used for home heating and temporal variation in the national prices of natural gas versus …

energy consumption, which caused an increase in mortality during very cold temperatures. We estimate that the increase in …