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Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...
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vulnerability. -- power market ; demand models ; demand response ; customer base-line ; forecast …The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity …
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assists drivers with finding customers by suggesting routes along which the demand is predicted to be high. We find that AI …
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This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform out-of-sample forecasts using an adaption of the model of Hatton (1995) to time series cross-sectional data about post-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004...
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mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of …
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. Forecast receipt increased demand for protective masks and increased the responsiveness of outdoor time to pollution. Forecast … forecast errors; the training effect suggests that modest educational interventions can durably improve forecasting skills …
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Air pollution is amongst the gravest public health concerns worldwide, and indoor sources are the largest contributors in many developing countries. In our study in central India, we randomly assign villages to a campaign by rural public health workers to either raise awareness about the adverse...
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based on three scenarios: (a) increases in gasoline prices, (b) increases in diesel prices, and (c) simultaneous increases … in gasoline and diesel prices. The results obtained suggest that the total impact of increasing fuel prices tends to be …
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We use a nationally representative panel data and combine difference-in-differences methodology with multivalued treatments to look at the impact of cooking fuel switch towards LPG on the probability of short-term adverse respiratory health outcomes such as cough and cough with breathing issues....
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This paper analyzes how gasoline tax rates are related to the time workers in the United States spend commuting by …-state differences and time variations in gasoline taxes. Using the American Time Use Surveys for the years 2003 to 2015, we find that … higher gasoline tax rates are related with less time spent in commuting. Furthermore, higher gasoline taxes are related to a …
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