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This report summarizes our study of the price elasticity of demand for home appliances, including refrigerators, clothes washers, and dishwashers. In the context of increasingly stringent appliance standards, we are interested in what kind of impact the increased manufacturing costs caused by...
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and employment. The previous paper described an economy in which households choose whether to enter the labor and product … simulation and continually revises its target level of savings according to a life-cycle hypothesis. Households can seek … households must draw from savings in order to purchase goods. This paper demonstrates the simultaneous convergence of product …
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represent households, firms, and other relevant entities like financial exchanges and governmental authorities. We … tradeoffs, such as decisions of households and firms regarding spending, savings, and investment. In this paper, we review some …
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project the impact of these price increases on the nation's low-income households by primary heating fuel type, nationally and … problems that will be faced by eligible low-income households during the 2008 fiscal year. In addition to providing expenditure …-and-trade carbon reduction proposal that, when integrated with the RECS 2001 database, provides estimates of how low-income households …
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This study analyzes impacts from energy efficiency standards and labeling in Mexico from 1994 through 2005 for four major products: household refrigerators, room air conditioners, three-phase (squirrel cage) induction motors, and clothes washers. It is a retrospective analysis, seeking to assess...
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As a market segment for solar photovoltaic (PV) adoption, new homes have a number of attractive attributes. Homebuyers can easily roll the cost of the PV system into their mortgage and, with rebates or other financial incentives, potentially realize an immediate net positive cash flow from the...
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This paper investigates how critical-peak pricing (CPP)affects households with different usage and income levels, with …
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economic benefits only for households with high clothes dryer usage or for households with high electricity prices and …
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Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
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The ability of households to diversify their income sources is strongly related to their capacity to cope in times of … which to draw when under such pressures. Households with a newborn child face two additional constraints: the income …-generating capability of mothers can be moderately or severely reduced; and households may have to spend more because of the newborn child …
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