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household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with …
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How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial savings of LED lighting. Information has two effects: It...
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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...
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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 … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …
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-experiment in which parts of Australia extended DST in 2000 to facilitate the Sydney Olympics. Using detailed panel data and a … model overstates electricity savings when it is applied to Australia …
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-being inside couples. To our knowledge, this effect has never been taken into account by existing economic models of the household …
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market promotions and terminations. Operating much like raises, such events have the potential to alter intra-household power …
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The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further … measures are strongly related to each partner's perceived fairness of the division of household tasks. In stage two, we predict …
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Australia's economy and labour market have escaped a dramatic downturn following the global financial economic crisis …. (2016) to measure and visualise employment barriers of individuals with weak labour-market attachment using household micro … pressing policy priorities in supporting different groups into employment in Australia. We identify seven distinct groups, each …
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We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … doing, recent literature on the modelling of proportions is combined with the growing body of research concerning household …
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