This is the first paper to use drivers' micro-level driving data and gasoline purchasing behavior to understand how drivers choose where to stop to purchase gasoline. We model drivers' decision as a combination of a choice of which stations to …
Electricity tariff reforms will be an essential part of the clean energy transition. Existing tariffs rely on average cost pricing and often set a price per unit that exceeds marginal cost. The higher price encourages over-adoption of residential …
This study develops and structurally estimates a model of household and electric utility behavior to describe how the low access rates and high connection charges that are common in the Sub-Saharan Africa region arise from regulated electricity …
Increasing block tariffs for electricity and water provide a subsidy for low users and a conservation incentive for high users. However, their effectiveness may depend on both how well consumers understand the nonlinear structure and how attentive …
Many households lack meters to measure their electricity or water consumption. I show that provision of electricity meters leads to a large reduction in electricity consumption over the first four months following meter installation. This is …
More than two thirds of electricity consumption in the world is for commercial and industrial use. In this paper I estimate the relationship between non-residential electricity consumption and short-term weather fluctuations. I use a panel of daily …
Electricity and water are often subsidized in developing countries to increase their affordability for low-income households. Ideally, such subsidies would create sufficient demand in poor neighborhoods to encourage private investment in their …
I estimate a model of the household demand for electricity that includes both the short-run consumption decision and the long-run choice of the appliances that the household owns. I use a discrete factor approximation for the correlation between the …