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Electoral goals and center-state transfers: a theoretical model and empirical evidence from India

Arulampalam, Wiji; Dasgupta, Sugato; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2008

between the incumbent parties at the central and state levels and whether a state is a swing state or not. A testable … prediction from the model is that a state that is both swing and aligned with the central government is especially likely to … state which is both aligned and swing in the last state election is estimated to receive 16% higher transfers than a state …

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Electoral Goals and Center-State Transfers: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence from India

Arulampalam, Wiji; Dasgupta, Sugato; Dhillon, Amrita; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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The Behavioral, Economic, and Political Impact of the Internet and Social Media: Empirical Challenges and Approaches

Sabatini, Fabio - 2023

This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...

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Which Households Respond to Electricity Peak Pricing amid High Levels of Electrification?

Garnache, Cloé; Hernaes, Øystein; Imenes, Anders Gravir - 2022

We examine heterogeneity in Norwegian households' price responses to critical peak pricing (CPP) on electricity consumption, using a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-frequency electricity data, and default enrollment. Increasing the grid transmission charge by 4,067%...

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Energy Price Shocks and the Demand for Energy-Efficient Housing: Evidence from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Braakmann, Nils; Dursun, Bahadir; Pickard, Harry - 2023

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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Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments

Rodemeier, Matthias; Löschel, Andreas - 2023

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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The effect of power outages and cheap talk on willingness to pay to reduce outages

Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Akay, Alpaslan - 2009

Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...

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How ICT Investment and Energy Use Influence the Productivity of Korean Industries

Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Lee, Jongsu; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor demand model is applied in order to link inter-temporal...

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A First Step up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda

Grimm, Michael; Munyehirwe, Anicet; Peters, Jörg; … - 2014

More than 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity. The UN have proclaimed the goal of providing electricity to all by 2030. In recent years, Pico-Photovoltaic kits have become a lower cost alternative to investment intensive grid electrification. Using a randomized controlled trial we...

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Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Vagliasindi, Maria - 2015

It is widely accepted that the costs of under-pricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors - transport...

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