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applied to a household production framework. We find that the electricity savings potential of the increased use of heat pumps …
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The main aim of this paper is to test the stability of the results of a model which focus on the relationship between the choice of heating equipment and the residential energy consumption. The results for the income and energy price variables are of special interest. Stability in the time...
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show that household characteristics are important variables in residential energy models. Energy price elasticities and …
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Liberalisation of the Norwegian electricity market has given more short-term variation in the electricity price. Since almost three quarters of Norwegian households have heating equipment using more than one energy carrier, we would expect them to be able to hedge from price increases and...
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limited opportunity to consume the good or because the household chooses not to use all available equipment (corner solution …). In this paper we develop a method to estimate an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) of household energy demand … opportunity of the individual household. We model the choice of corner solutions by a stochastic Kuhn-Tucker condition, and …
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discrete information about the utilization of available equipment complementary to the storable good in consumption. Household …
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approach of measuring poverty through a fully-fledged household expenditure survey. As most developing countries cannot justify … estimates with confidence intervals of a similar magnitude as the poverty estimates from the household expenditure surveys …This paper examines the performance of a particular method for predicting poverty. The method is a supplement to the …
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method of estimating poverty requires a measurement of total consumption based on a time and resource demanding household … predict poverty based upon a small set of household variables to be collected yearly between two 12 months household surveys …The primus inter pares of the UN Millennium Development Goals is to reduce poverty. The only internationally accepted …
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once. We find that the workfare reform did not only increase earnings and education as well as lower welfare caseloads and … by this route ease the financial burden of the government, but also reduced poverty. …
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This paper sheds light on the role of student motivation in the success of schooling. We develop a model in which a teacher engages in the management of student motivation through the choice of the classroom environment. We show that the teacher is able to motivate high-ability students, at...
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