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 …How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question …

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number … country level. Finally, we construct the first index of corruption in US cities and study its correlates. -- Internet …

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi-experimental … variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in …

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 …

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 …, housing size, and employment status are salient predictors for energy expenditure. Housing characteristics have a moderate …

How do private consumers adapt to changes to energy prices, in particular do they invest in energy-saving measures? We … study this question in the context of the rapid rise in energy prices caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February … 2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK housing market. We find that the housing market barely reacted to a 60 …

education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …

comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …