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Lifeline programs sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in cooperation with the states and Local Exchange Companies (LECs) area authorized to increase telephone penetration. Estimates of a variant of Perl's (1983) economic model with 1990 Consensus Data broken to the state...

Adding the 2000 decennial census data to our pooled logit model results in much stronger evidence that targeted subsidy programs to add poor households to the network are ineffective and very costly. Untargeted programs are about nine times more expensive than targeted programs. Overall higher...

A large amount of work in residential electricity demand has relied on logit estimation of a disaggregated appliance stock. (See the seminal work by McFadden et al., 1977.) While this approach may be suitable for certain types of models with certain goals in mind, a simple formulation of an...