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household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with … but participated later. The evidence suggest that the customers who participated in the survey reduced their electricity …
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Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self …We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and … differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany to the corresponding differences in West …
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electricity access. We account for self-selection and regional differences by using households from the electrified villages to …
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Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. What was its impact … higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for electrification using hydro-electric potential, we find that the average …
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This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …
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We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...
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When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise because workers typically do not know where other workers apply to and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider. The first coordination friction affects network formation, while the second...
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This paper is concerned with testing the time series implications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) due to Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965), when the number of securities, N, is large relative to the time dimension, T, of the return series. In the case of cross-sectionally correlated...
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This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...
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This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...
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