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Agricultural Price Seasonality and Market Failure: Examining the Net Seller Household and the Net Benefit Ratio Definition
Vergez, Antonin - 2007
On the basis of a household typology distinguishing between net sellers, net buyers and self sufficient, the Net … (from Mexico and Mali), to show that, if considering MF and PS, (1) the household typology can be partly reconfigured and (2 …) the distribution of the NBR over the household income profile slightly change. Yet, if the applied use of this …
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Whose Money? Whose Time? A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Time Spent on Housework
Gupta, Sanjiv; Ash, Michael - 2006
We argue that earlier quantitative research on the relationship between heterosexual partners’ earnings and time spent on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on their housework, and has not considered the simpler...
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New analysis techniques for estimating impacts of federal appliance efficiency standards
McMahon, James E. - 2008
Impacts of U.S. appliance and equipment standards have been described previously. Since 2000, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has updated standards for clothes washers, water heaters, and residential central air conditioners and heat pumps. A revised estimate of the aggregate impacts of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435423
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Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport utilities metering, Phase 1
Carroll, D.M. - 2008
Pacific Northwest Laboratory developed this report for the US Navy's Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, Rhode Island (NUWC). The purpose of the report was to review options for metering electricity and steam used in the NUWC compound, and to make recommendations to NUWC for...
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Evaluation of resource impact factors versus social cost estimates in determining building energy performance standard levels
Nieves, L.A.; Nesse, R.J.; Adams, R.C.; McDonald, C.L. - 2011
In order to increase the welfare of society through the implementation of a building energy-performance standard, a method is required by which the least-cost means of obtaining the desired space conditioning of a building can be estimated. In other words, a life-cycle cost model must be...
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Estimation of the social costs of natural gas
Nieves, L.A.; Lemon, J.R. - 2011
This study determines the extent to which it is possible to develop monetary estimates of the marginal social cost of fuels, using natural gas to test a methodology that could be applied to other fuels. This requires review of previous estimates of both market and nonmarket costs to the extent...
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Characterizing emerging industrial technologies in energy models
Laitner, John A.; Worrell, Ernst; Galitsky, Christina; … - 2008
Conservation supply curves are a common tool in economic analysis. As such, they provide an important opportunity to include a non-linear representation of technology and technological change in economy-wide models. Because supply curves are closely related to production isoquants, we explore...
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Check-Testing of Manufacturer Self Reported Labeling Data& Compliance with MEPS
Zhou, Nan; Zhou, Nan; Zheng, Nina; Fridley, David; … - 2008
; household refrigerators; clothes washers; and unitary air conditioners. These programs have had an important impact in reducing …
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Program evaluation: Weatherization Residential Assistance Partnership (WRAP) Program
2008
The Connecticut low income weatherization program was developed in response to a 1987 rate docket order from the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) to Connecticut Light Power Co., an operating subsidiary of Northeast Utilities (NU). (Throughout this report, NU is referred to...
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The impact of rising energy prices on household energy consumption and expenditure patterns: The Persian Gulf crisis as a case example
Henderson, L.J.; Poyer, D.A.; Teotia, A.P.S. - 2008
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent war between Iraq and an international alliance led by the United States triggered immediate increases in world oil prices. Increases in world petroleum prices and in US petroleum imports resulted in higher petroleum prices for US customers. In this...
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