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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 …, it appears that households at the mid-point of their life cycle are relatively the largest consumers of electricity. This …
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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% (corresponding to an increase in the electricity price by 1,242%) leads to a 12 …
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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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household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with … between households, which participate voluntarily, and the surveyors. The objective of this study is to determine whether and … produces estimates on distributions. The comparison group consists of households who were not yet participating in the survey …
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. Our findings show that households are willing to dedicate a substantial part of their expenditures to electricity. In …Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political … whether the objective and the associated costs are justified by the value that target beneficiaries assign to electricity. We …
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Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
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This paper investigates the potentially non-linear relation between households' indebtedness and their consumption … between 2010 and 2014 in Belgium, using panel data from the two waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. Unlike … previous studies, we find a negative effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption, even in the absence of negative …
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power was replaced by fossil fuels, causing an exogenous increase in electricity prices. This increase led to a reduction in … mortality from higher electricity prices outnumbers the mortality from the accident itself, suggesting the decision to cease …
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The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature …
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estimated on a sub-sample of the British Household Panel Survey, consisting of two-earner households. The empirical results …In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household …
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