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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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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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. 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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Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the …, thus distinguishing households in which the wife is a "housewife" from 'dual-earners'. We use a regression discontinuity … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …
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households, using assignable goods and assuming adult preference similarity across demographic groups (or across spouses). While ….e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …
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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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increased river temperatures on German electricity prices from 2002 to 2009. Having controlled for demand effects, the results … indicate that the electricity price is significantly impacted by both a change in river temperatures and the relative abundance … of river water. An implication is that future climate change will affect electricity prices not only through changes in …
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This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor demand model is applied in order to link inter-temporal...
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