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applies the methodology to estimate preferences for electricity reliability in Israel …
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This paper presents estimates of the customer-level demand for electricity by industrial and commercial customers … purchasing electricity according to the half-hourly energy prices from the England and Wales (E&W) electricity market. These … customers also face the possibility of a demand charge on their electricity consumption during the three half-hour periods that …
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empirical relevance of this phenomenon is scarce. We study the dynamics of residential electricity demand by exploiting price … electricity suppliers on behalf of their residents. Using a flexible difference-in-differences matching approach, we estimate a …
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Environmental policy is increasingly concerned with measuring emissions resulting from local changes to electricity … consumption. These marginal emissions are challenging to measure because electricity grids encompass multiple locations and the … as a high-dimensional aggregation problem: The effect of electricity consumption on emissions can be estimated precisely …
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Data from 70 large export-oriented garment manufacturers in Bangladesh show that gender wage gaps are similar to those …
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This paper looks at the predictions of a standard heterogeneous firm model regarding the exports of firms across markets in response to a particular trade policy "experiment" and compares these predictions to the data. A unique feature of our data is that it has information on the exports of the...
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We examine resource allocation in step-households, in the United States and South Africa, to test whether child investments vary according to economic and genetic bonds between parent and child. We used 18 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by...
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We study the private market response to the National School Lunch Program, documenting economically meaningful spillovers to non-recipients. We focus on the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), an expansion of the lunch program under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Under the CEP,...
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We find evidence that exposure to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a meaningful impact on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 percent. For households in zip codes with higher...
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The food supply chain has experienced major disruptions from both demand and supply sides during the Covid-19 pandemic. While some consequences such as food waste are directly caused by the disruption due to supply chain inefficiency, others are indirectly caused by a change in consumer's...
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