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How do private consumers adapt to changes to energy prices, in particular do they invest in energy-saving measures? We study this question in the context of the rapid rise in energy prices caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK...
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How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial savings of LED lighting. Information has two effects: It...
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This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 Egyptian HIECS Survey, we develop a quantile regression model with an innovative variable selection approach via Adaptive Lasso Regularization technique to untangle the spectrum of...
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federally owned buildings. Using propensity score matching and difference in differences models, we find no effect of LEED … scores under the LEED program. Buildings with above average energy scores have greater energy efficiency post …
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We leverage the expansion of the National Social Assistance Program (NSAP) in India in 2006 to estimate the impact of … regression discontinuity design based on age-eligibility cutoffs. We focus on India given that it is the largest lower …
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the capital city of Bihar, India, we evaluate how light-touch messaging interventions influence household waste management …
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the state ruling party on the growth of private educational institutions in India. We find that constituencies represented …
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crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without …
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India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …
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investigate the impact of electing an educated politician on economic development in the politician's constituency in India. We …
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