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Demographic impacts of utility rate designs
Butler, J.; Poyer, D.A. - 2009
Historically, utility customers have been differentiated into various customer classes, based on their utility service demand characteristics. In this paper we argue that greater differentiation, if based on value and cost of service, can be justified on grounds of economic efficiency, and if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436011
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Community-Level Impacts Projection System (CLIPS). Final report
Monts, J.K.; Bareiss, E.R. - 2007
The Community-Level Impacts Projection System includes a set of techniques for providing detailed advance information required for rational planning. The computerized system generates reports which enable the user: to describe the energy development activity in terms of its employment demands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436029
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1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study, Technical Appendix: Volume 1.
United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2008
This publication provides detailed documentation of the load forecast scenarios and assumptions used in preparing BPA's 1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study (the Study). This is one of two technical appendices to the Study; the other appendix details the utility-specific loads and...
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The role of amenities and other factors in influencing the location of nonmanufacturing industry in the United States
Allison, T.; Calzonetti, F.J. - 2008
Consumer and producer services, the latter in particular, are expected to become an important means of diversification and employment growth to the economy of Nevada. It has been suggested that the siting of the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, will lead to a significant...
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Staff policy regarding mitigation of school enrollment impacts
Williams, D.S. - 2007
Testimony in recent geothermal power plant siting cases in the Geysers-Calistoga KGRA has established that nine local school districts have reached or exceeded the design which induces immigration into these impacted districts will aggravate the situation. Several power plant applicants have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436266
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Public service impacts of geothermal development: cumulative impacts study of the Geysers KGRA. Final staff report
Matthews, K.M. - 2007
The number of workers currently involved in the various aspects of geothermal development in the Geysers are identified. Using two different development scenarios, projections are made for the number of power plants needed to reach the electrical generation capacity of the steam resource in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436963
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Essays on the macroeconomics of labor markets
Stetsenko, Sergiy - 2010
the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United States between the 1970s and 1990s … and shows how the cyclical and secular properties of fertility can be used to distinguish among several proposed theories … that account for the rise in labor force participation of married mothers. The model, in which households make fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438557
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Three essays on mortality and fertility
Castro, Ruben - 2011
literature on mortality and fertility. The first essay explores the role of chronic conditions onto the US educational … lower fertility rates and lower investment in the health and education of both girls and boys, and to. The third essay … introduces a quantitative index of fertility recuperation. This study proposes a summary measure of the fertility rate after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438623
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Essays on the economic and social demography of households
Kyei, Pearl - 2010
This dissertation in multi-paper format, studies three aspects of the demography of households. The first paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438706
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Contemporary topics in low fertility: Late transitions to parenthood and low fertility in East Asia
Wheeler, Marissa - 2011
Two contemporary topics in fertility are investigated: late transitions to parenthood and low fertility. In the first …, conditional on childlessness at age 30, fertility intentions are the most important factor in explaining the higher odds of … among college graduates. In the second essay, I examine the responsiveness of fertility to major economic shock using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438727