Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses …

for cooking drive this time burden? To assess time-savings from shifting towards cleaner fuels, we revisit a clean energy … nudges towards cleaner energy use at home are unlikely to generate transformative shifts in women's home production time …

Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In … particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the … interaction between suppliers and customers (smart grids). Power generation by renewable energy sources can also benefit from this …

Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In … emissions have renewed the interest in the development of alternative energy resources. In particular, the Fukushima Daiichi … accident was a turning point in the call for alternative energy sources. Renewable energy is now considered a more desirable …

The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several … scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of … individual and groups of countries and to analyze the environmental effects of energy policies. Previous studies have analyzed …

Although there is strong support for renewable energy plants, they are often met with local resistance. We quantify the … externalities of renewable energy plants using wellbeing data. We focus on the example of biogas, one of the most frequently …

carbon emissions. Additionally, major consumer countries are looking for alternative sources of energy to avoid the impact of … higher fossil fuel prices and political instability in the major energy supplying countries. In this regard, different … policies could be applied to reduce carbon emissions, such as enhancing renewable energy deployment and encouraging …

It is widely accepted that the costs of under-pricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries …. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in … (agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy …

policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system... …