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A Life-Cycle Theory Analysis of French Household Electricity Demand

Belaîd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021

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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The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2021

luxury goods. Moreover, uncertainty reduces household propensity to invest in mutual funds. These results support the notion … that macroeconomic uncertainty can impact household decisions and have large negative effects on economic outcomes …

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Trust and the Choice between Housing and Financial Assets : Evidence from Spanish Households

El-Attar, Mayssun - 2010

. Combining these estimates with data on Spanish households' financial decisions from the Survey of Household Finances (EFF …) conducted by the Bank of Spain, we show that households with less trust invest more in housing and less in financial assets, in …

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Family Finances and Debt Overhang : Evolving Consumption Patterns of Spanish Households

Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2022

This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …-level panel data for Spain, and focus on a interesting period of analysis, 2002-2017, characterized by large variations in …

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Energy Poverty and Health Care Expenditures : Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge - 2022

Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on health care expenditures among Chinese adults aged 18+. Employing a methodology combining a random effects two-part model and instrumental variable estimations, we show that EP...

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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...

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Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity : Experimental Evidence from Rwanda

Grimm, Michael - 2017

Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are very high. The present paper examines whether the objective and the associated costs are...

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Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa

BenYoussef, Adel - 2016

We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy, greenhouse effect, and government expenditure per capita) for a sample of 16 African countries over the period 1971-2010 (according to availability of countries' data). We use the...

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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market

Heshmati, Almas - 2012

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...

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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries

Arouri, Mohamed - 2014

This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12...

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