abstract this study reviews the direct and indirect effects of higher energy and bread prices (due to removing their subsidies and paying their equivalent in cash instead). therefore, all consumer goods were classified into 6 groups and a linear expenditure system was estimated based on households’ budget data of 2009 and 2011 for urban and rural areas separately. the results indicate that high...

using a choice experiment survey, the marginal willingness to pay (wtp) among iranian households to avoid power outages is estimated. the results indicate that households prefer lower price of alternatives and the low duration and frequency of outages, and the factors of outage day, outage time and warning in advance of outage are important to households' preferences. moreover, the conditi...

A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation: A Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean an...

4 Preference for water quality and its nonmarket valuation can be used to inform the development of 5 pricing policies and long term supply strategies. Tap water quality is a household concern. The 6 objective status quo varies between households and not between individuals within households, 7 while charges are levied on households not individuals. Individual preferences differ from 8 collecti...

OBJECTIVE Radon and cigarette smoking have synergistic effects on lung cancer, even when radon concentrations are relatively low. Working through an electric utility company, we sought to reach smoking households with low radon concentrations and motivate smoking cessation or prohibiting smoking in the home. DESIGN Eligible homes (n = 714) were randomised to receive: (1) the Environmental Pro...

this study focuses on the factors influencing consumer’s decision in fish consumption in erzurum province of turkey. the data were obtained from 384 households who live in urban areas of erzurum province in 2012. the sample size of the study was determined by unclustered proportional sampling method. analytic hierarchy process (ahp) was used to determine the most suitable type of fish for house...

These notes analyze the production of financial services in general equilibrium. 1 Real Economy 1.1 Households The finance industry provides credit as well as liquidity and payment services to households (and savers more generally). In addition, household debt has an important life-cycle component (i.e., mortgages). The model must therefore incorporate these features. To do so, I consider a set...

In the smart grid, the power usage of households are recorded and analyzed in (near) real time by utility companies. The usage data enables a utility to manage its electric power supply to neighborhoods more efficiently and effectively. For instance, to prevent a power outage during a peak demand period, the utility can determine the power supply threshold for a neighborhood. When the total pow...