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summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of … environmental advantages of home solar are likely to be relatively small in countries like Kenya, where grid power is primarily …
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evidence. Using a novel dataset of 20,000 geo-tagged structures in rural Western Kenya, we provide descriptive evidence that …
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This study examines a field experiment in Texas that includes pricing and informational interventions to encourage energy conservation during summer peak load days when the social cost of generation is the highest. We estimate that our critical peak pricing intervention reduces electricity...
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household electricity demand that addresses these difficulties. We estimate the model using data for a representative sample of …
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the widespread use of increasing-block pricing (IBP), under which the marginal price to the household increases as its … has adopted some of the most steeply increasing-block tariffs in electric utility history. Combining household … approach to studying (or controlling for) income distribution effects by using median household income within a census block …
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goods has expanded from household utilities, toll road access and software downloads to standard consumption goods paid by … decisions. This paper exploits hourly household electricity consumption data collected by "smart" electricity meters to examine … receipt of an electricity bill, but the response varies considerably by household type and season. Our results also suggest …
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been flat since 1980. Using unique micro data, we document the role that household demographics and ideology play in … electricity consumption time series index from 1980 to 2006. We show that certain micro determinants of household electricity …
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exclusively been on the short-run impacts of expanding renewable supply. In this paper, we shed light on the longer run impacts of …
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On Aug. 8, 2005, President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (PL 109-58). This was the first major piece of energy legislation enacted since 1992 following five years of Congressional efforts to pass energy legislation. Among other things, the law contains tax incentives worth over $14...
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One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...
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