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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels

Kaiser, William - 2014

In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039856

Conservation : From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2013

This paper investigates how concern for the environment translates into predictable patterns of consumer behavior. Two types of behavior are considered. First, individuals who care about environmental quality may voluntarily restrain their consumption of goods and services that generate a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753733

Harnessing Policy Complementarities to Conserve Energy : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

List, John A. - 2017

The literature has shown the power of social norms to promote residential energy conservation, particularly among high usage users. This study uses a natural field experiment with nearly 200,000 US households to explore whether a financial rewards program can complement such approaches. We...

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Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium : Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status

Dastrup, Samuel R. - 2015

This study uses a large sample of homes in the San Diego area and Sacramento, California area to provide some of the first capitalization estimates of the sales value of homes with solar panels relative to comparable homes without solar panels. Although the residential solar home market...

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Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives : An Evaluation of the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2015

Can simple government programs effectively promote voluntary initiatives to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? This paper provides an evaluation of how the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities program affects household decisions to voluntarily purchase "green" electricity, which is electricity...

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Public Goods Provision in the Presence of Heterogeneous Green Preferences

Jacobsen, Mark R. - 2014

We develop a model of the private provision of public goods in a world where agents face convex costs of provision. Consonant with prior empirical evidence, we introduce preference heterogeneity by allowing a subset of agents to exhibit pro-social behavior that reflects "green" preferences. We...

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Every Day is Earth Day : Evidence on the Long-Term Impact of Environmental Activism

Hungerman, Daniel M.; Moorthy, Vivek S. - 2022

We explore the importance of activism in the context of Earth Day. We use variation in weather to study the long-term effects of the original Earth Day on attitudes, environmental outcomes, and children's health. Unusually bad weather in a community on April 22, 1970, is associated 10 to 20...

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Environmental Concern and the Business Cycle : The Chilling Effect of Recession

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2010

This paper uses three different sources of data to investigate the association between the business cycle--measured with unemployment rates--and environmental concern. Building on recent research that finds internet search terms to be useful predictors of health epidemics and economic activity,...

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Can a Rational Choice Framework Make Sense of Anorexia Nervosa?

Goldfarb, Robert S.; Leonard, Thomas C. (Tim); … - 2022

Can a rational choice modeling framework help broaden our understanding of anorexia nervosa? This question is interesting because anorexia nervosa is a serious health concern, and because of the following issue: could a rational choice approach shed useful light on a condition which appears to...

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Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women

Dave, Dhaval - 2010

Education beyond traditional ages for schooling is an important source of human capital acquisition among adult women … the effects of welfare reform on adult women's educational acquisition. We first estimate effects of welfare reform on … women. We conduct numerous specification checks and explore the mediating role of work. We find robust and convincing …

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