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A First Step Up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda
Grimm, Michael; Munyehirwe, Anicet; Peters, Jörg; … - 2015
More than 1.3 billion people in developing countries are lacking access to electricity. Based on the assumption that electricity is a prerequisite for human development, the United Nations initiative Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) has proclaimed the goal of providing modern energy to all by...
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Differences in how and why social comparisons and real-time feedback impact resource use: Evidence from a field experiment
Andor, Mark Andreas; Götte, Lorenz; Price, Michael Keith; … - 2023
We compare the behavior and welfare effects of two popular behavioral interventions for resource conservation. The … than for SC. We find that all interventions enhance welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466978
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Is there heterogeneity in the response of consumption to income shocks?
Ludwig, Johannes - 2015
While recently more and more research has focused on the aggregate response of consumption to income shocks, little is known about how this response differs for households at different ends of the income distribution. This paper investigates how consumption reacts to transitory and permanent...
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Do Parents Buy Their Children's Attention?
Meng, Annika - 2009
Past empirical studies on the strategic bequest motive have found evidence for the existence of a positive causation of wealth on receiving attention from on's children. This paper illustrates that these results from the past should be interpreted with some care as the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265811
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Income Shocks or Insurance - What Determines Consumption Inequality?
Ludwig, Johannes - 2015
Contrary to the implications of economic theory, consumption inequality in the US did not react to the increases in … income inequality during the last three decades. This paper investigates if a change in the type of income inequality - from …. Together, these phenomena can explain the lack of an increase in consumption inequality. …
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Do Parents Buy Their Children's Attention?
Meng, Annika - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
causation of wealth on receiving attention from on's children. This paper illustrates that these results from the past should be interpreted with some care as the relationship between wealth and children's attention is sensitive to the type of financial variable used in the analysis. Only family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509375
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany: Evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
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Can parental migration reduce petty corruption in education?
Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Santos Silva, Manuel; Stöhr, Tobias - 2015
Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and schoollevel inputs. In poor countries, remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of migrant parents can affect families' time allocation towards...
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Fuel Taxes versus Efficiency Standards – An Instrumental Variable Approach
Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - 2013
and fuel taxes on distance traveled. We fi nd that the magnitudes of the elasticity estimates are statistically …
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Asymmetry – Resurrecting the Roots
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Vance, Colin - 2013
This note attempts to reconcile a range of primary methods for dealing with price asymmetry, such as the approaches proposed by Tweeten and Quance (1969), Wolffram (1971) and Houk(1977). Using Wolffram's stylized example, we first illustrate that the notion of asymmetry can be captured in a...
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