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Institutions vs. Policies : A Tale of Two Islands
Henry, Peter Blair - 2010
for explaining differences in their subsequent economic development. Barbados and Jamaica provide a striking counter … 1960 to 2002, Barbados' GDP per capita grew roughly three times as fast as Jamaica's. Consequently, the income gap between … Barbados and Jamaica is now almost five times larger than at the time of independence. Since their property rights and legal …
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How Pro-Poor Growth Affects the Demand for Energy
Gertler, Paul J. - 2013
Most of the future growth in energy use is forecast to come from the developing world. Understanding the likely pace and specific location of this growth is essential to inform decisions about energy infrastructure investments and to improve greenhouse gas emissions forecasts. We argue that...
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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica C1774
Burnard, Trevor - 2017
wealth Jamaica was the most unequal place in the pre-modern world. Furthermore, all of these characteristics applied to the …
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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation : A 20-Year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica
Gertler, Paul J. - 2013
We find large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught...
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External Capital Structures and Oil Price Volatility
Burger, John D. - 2010
oil price shocks. We study two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks, an oil-importer (Jamaica) and an …
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Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing : Understanding Cohort Effects
Costa, Dora L. - 2011
We find that households living in California homes built in the 1960s and 1970s had high electricity consumption in 2000 relative to houses of more recent vintages because the price of electricity at the time of home construction was low. Homes built in the early 1990s had lower electricity...
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The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Manufacturing : Evidence from Microdata
Martin, Ralf - 2011
We estimate the impacts of the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK production census. Our identification strategy builds on the comparison of outcomes between plants subject to the CCL and plants that were granted an 80% discount on the levy after...
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The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions : Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation
Allcott, Hunt - 2012
We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison- based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households nationwide. First, initial reports cause high-frequency "action and backsliding," but these cycles attenuate over time....
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Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Marginal Emissions : Implications for Electric Cars and Other Electricity-Shifting Policies
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2012
In this paper, we develop a methodology for estimating marginal emissions of electricity demand that vary by location and time of day across the United States. The approach takes account of the generation mix within interconnected electricity markets and shifting load profiles throughout the...
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Knowledge is (Less) Power : Experimental Evidence from Residential Energy Use
Jessoe, Katrina Kohajda - 2012
This paper presents experimental evidence that information feedback dramatically increases the price elasticity of demand in a setting where signals about quantity consumed are traditionally coarse and infrequent. In a randomized controlled trial, residential electricity customers are exposed to...
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