A growing literature points to the effectiveness of leveraging social interactions and nudges to spur adoption of pro-social behaviors. This study investigates a large-scale behavioral intervention designed to actively leverage social learning and peer interactions to encourage adoption of...

A growing literature points to the effectiveness of leveraging social interactions and nudges to spur adoption of pro-social behaviors. This study investigates a large-scale behavioral intervention designed to actively leverage social learning and peer interactions to encourage adoption of...

This paper studies how subsidies for solar systems can lead to second-degree moral hazard - the impulse of installers to increase prices and/or reduce labor input when customers receive subsidies. Employing an instrumental variable strategy using plausibly exogenous variation in the size of...

The solar photovoltaic (PV) industry in the United States has been the recipient of billions of dollars of subsidies, motivated both by environmental externalities and spillovers across firms from learning-by-doing (LBD) in the installation of the technology. Using a dynamic model of demand and...

Concerns raised by solar geoengineering include physical impacts as well as worries that solar geoengineering might undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, foster heightened international conflict, put society at risk of accelerated warming if solar geoengineering efforts were to...

In this work we illustrate a simple logical framework serving the purpose of assessing the economic profitability and measuring value creation in a solar photovoltaic (PhV) project and, in general, in a replacement project where the cash-flow stream is nonnegative, with some strictly positive...