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How can consumers use electricity more efficiently? : exploring the role of information

Degen, Katharina; Götte, Lorenz; Lalive, Rafael - In: Evidence-based economic policy : three essays in …, (pp. 86-139). 2014

experiment in which we discuss the effective- ness of different types of feedback on residential electricity consumption. We find … that detailed and real-time feedback caused persistent electricity reductions on the order of 3 to 5 % of daily electricity … consumption. Also social norm information can generate substantial electricity sav- ings when designed appropriately. The findings …

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Monitoring consumption Switzerland : data, background, and use cases

Brown, Martin; Fengler, Matthias; Huwyler, Jonas; … - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 159 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16

Monitoring Consumption Switzerland is a public-private partnership between the University of St. Gallen and the payment … companies Worldline and SIX that processes and publishes payment data on transactions in Switzerland processed by Wordline …

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How culture shapes choices related to fertility and mortality : causal evidence at the swiss language border

Faessler, Lisa; Lalive, Rafael; Efferson, Charles - 2023

meet this challenge, we exploit a cultural border dividing Switzerland in ways that are independent of institutional …

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Corona und Ungleichheit in der Schweiz : eine erste Analyse der Verteilungswirkungen der Covid-19-Pandemie : finanziert durch Bundesamt für Gesundheit BAG, Enterprise 4 Society Cen...

Martínez, Isabel; Kopp, Daniel; Lalive, Rafael; … - 2021

Einkommensverteilung in der Schweiz ausgewirkt hat. Grundlage der Analyse sind sechs Befragungswellen des sotomo …/SRF-Bevölkerungsmonitorings, welche die Situation der Haushalte in der Schweiz seit Beginn der Pandemie systematisch beschreiben. Die Analyse …

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The impact of active labor market programs and benefit entitlement rules on the duration of unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2000

Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …

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The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2003 - revised December 2003

Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...

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