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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 deployed technologies besides wind and solar. To...
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This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy on power output, we use a semiparametric smooth coefficient (SPSC) model that allows us to model...
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The passage of landmark government regulation is often the culmination of evolving social pressure and incremental policy change. During this process, firms may preemptively adjust behavior in anticipation of impending regulation, making it difficult to quantify the overall economic impact of...
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This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy on power output, we use a semiparametric smooth coefficient (SPSC) model that allows us to model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764608
electricity and fertility. We find no evidence that changes to direct and indirect costs of children play a role. Overall, the …
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Disparities in cross-city pandemic severity during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic remain poorly understood. This paper uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to explore the determinants of pandemic mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i)...
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This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men...
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benefits and costs, but the net effects for local residents are not well understood. This paper examines effects of …
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grid to study the costs and the benefits of coal-fired electricity generation. The empirical analysis exploits the timing … the importance of considering both the costs and benefits of polluting activities, and suggest that demand for policy …
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This paper studies how increases in energy input costs for production are split between consumers and producers via … between producers and consumers due to a change in input costs. We find that increases in energy prices lead to higher plant …-level marginal costs and output prices but lower markups. This suggests that marginal cost pass-through is incomplete, with estimates …
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