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The Distributional Effects of Building Energy Codes

Bruegge, Chris - 2018

State-level building energy codes have been around for over 40 years, but recent empirical research has cast doubt on their effectiveness. A potential virtue of standards-based policies is that they may be less regressive than explicit taxes on energy consumption. However, this conjecture has...

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Implications for Energy Innovation from the Chemical Industry

Arora, Ashish - 2014

The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played in its development. We then explore three noteworthy...

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Energy Efficiency Economics and Policy

Gillingham, Kenneth - 2014

Energy efficiency and conservation are considered key means for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving other …. We review economic concepts underlying consumer decision making in energy efficiency and conservation and examine related … behavioral failures that have been cited in the energy efficiency context. We assess the extent to which these conditions provide …

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The Effects of the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency Standards

Goldberg, Pinelopi - 2021

This paper examines the effects of the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency standards (CAFE) on the automobile product mix … results taken together imply that (1) contrary to the CAFE opponents' claims, higher fleet fuel efficiency is not neutralized …

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Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2009

The history of Daylight Saving Time (DST) has been long and controversial. Throughout its implementation during World Wars I and II, the oil embargo of the 1970s, consistent practice today, and recent extensions, the primary rationale for DST has always been to promote energy conservation....

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Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment : The Case of Household Energy Use

Knittel, Christopher R. - 2019

We use causal forests to evaluate the heterogeneous treatment effects (TEs) of repeated behavioral nudges towards household energy conservation. The average response is a monthly electricity reduction of 9 kilowatt-hours (kWh), but the full distribution of responses ranges from -30 to +10 kWh....

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How Effective is Energy-Efficient Housing? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mexico

Davis, Lucas W. - 2018

Despite growing enthusiasm, there is little empirical evidence on how well energy efficiency investments work. Evidence …

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Energy Efficiency Standards are More Regressive than Energy Taxes : Theory and Evidence

Levinson, Arik - 2016

disproportional burden on poorer families, preferring to set energy efficiency standards instead. I first show that in theory …, regulations targeting energy efficiency are more regressive than energy taxes, not less. I then provide an example in the context …

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Asymmetric Effects of Non-Pecuniary Signals on Search and Purchase Behavior for Energy-Efficient Durable Goods

Holladay, James Scott - 2016

We report the results of a field experiment where we exogenously vary the use of social comparisons "nudges" and subsidies for participation in an in-home energy audit program, and follow subjects through to the subsequent purchase of durable goods. We therefore can compare the causal effect of...

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Are Fuel Economy Standards Regressive?

Davis, Lucas W. - 2016

Despite widespread agreement that a carbon tax would be more efficient, many countries use fuel economy standards to reduce transportation-related carbon dioxide emissions. We pair a simple model of the automakers' profit maximization problem with unusually-rich nationally representative data on...

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