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Energy boom and gloom? : local effects of oil and natural gas drilling on subjective well-being
Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 2016
technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Increased energy development likely creates both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455295
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Who benefits from local oil and gas employment? : labor market composition in the oil and gas industry in Texas
Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 2019
This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012015844
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The impact of climate change on mortality in the United States : benefits and costs of adaptation
Deschênes, Olivier - 2022
This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329615
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Climate adaptation policies and infant health: evidence from a water policy in Brazil
Mata, Daniel da; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor; … - 2021
program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517152
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What if working from home will stick? : distributional and climate impacts for Germany
Bachelet, Marion; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Koch, Nikolas - 2021
energy and transport consumption and costs in Germany to assess the distributional and environmental implications when …-from-home feasibility for different occupations, we calculate the change in energy consumption and travel to work when 15% of employees work … full time from home. Our findings suggest that telework translates into an annual increase in heating energy expenditure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604137
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Electricity prices, river temperatures and cooling water scarcity
McDermott, Grant R.; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2012
demand, but also via increased water temperatures and scarcity. -- thermal-based power ; water scarcity ; water-energy nexus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620936
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On the impact of oil prices on sectoral inflation : evidence from world's top oil exporters and importers
Ben Salem, Leila; Nouira, Ridha; Rault, Christophe - 2024
prices are likely to affect the energy sector, such as transport and equipment, which are the most dependent on oil. Third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454468
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The determinants of crude oil prices : evidence from ARDL and nonlinear ARDL approaches
Ben Salem, Leila; Nouira, Ridha; Jeguirim, Khaled; … - 2022
This paper is an innovative attempt to empirically investigate the determinants of crude oil prices. The main objective is to distinguish between short- and long-term effects of some covariates on oil prices. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach is applied to daily series spanning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429325
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Volatility spillover between oil prices and main exchange rates : evidence from a DCC-GARCH-connectedness approach
Ben Salem, Leila; Zayati, Montassar; Nouira, Ridha; … - 2024
price shocks as net transmitters across the network during extreme scenarios. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494631
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How do oil prices affect the GDP and its components? : new evidence from a time-varying threshold model
Ben Salem, Leila; Nouira, Ridha; Saafi, Sami; Rault, … - 2024
Revealing the precise thresholds at which fluctuations in oil prices start to affect gross domestic product and its various components (consumption, investment, expenditure and exports) holds significant implications for policymakers in both oil-importing and oil-exporting countries. Existing...
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