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Ecology
W. Kip Viscusi, Joel Huber, Jason Bell
Summary: This study used a national U.S. dataset to examine changes in recycling behavior based on 232,309 pairs of same-household observations. The majority of households recycled at least one material, with paper, cans, glass, or plastic being the most common materials. Recycling habits were found to be stable, with little change in the number of materials recycled. Factors such as deposit laws, effective recycling laws, and single-stream recycling had positive effects on recycling rates. Additionally, household income, marriage, and the arrival of a newborn were found to impact recycling behavior.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2023)
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Economics
Seungyoon Lee
Summary: Using Korean household panel data, this study examines the impact of house price changes on household consumption, with a focus on differences in response between homeownership status and the direction of price fluctuations. The findings reveal that rising house prices have little effect on consumption, while declining prices have a substantial impact. Decreases in house prices decrease consumption among homeowners and increase consumption among renters, suggesting that the opposing pressures of these two groups offset each other. Further analysis shows that certain household heterogeneities lead to asymmetric responses, with owners of multiple houses or larger residences and older owners showing greater effects. Homeowners with loan-to-value ratios at the standard cutoff level for a home equity line of credit also significantly increase their consumption in response to rising house prices. Multiple pieces of evidence support the role of wealth and collateral effects.
ECONOMIC MODELLING
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Sumei Luo, Yongkun Sun, Rui Zhou
Summary: This paper examines the relationship between fintech innovation and household consumption using data from the China Family Panel Studies and the digital inclusive financial index. The results indicate that fintech innovation can significantly promote household consumption at the national level. The main transmission channels are entrepreneurship and increasing income, and the effects vary across different regions and household types.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
(2022)
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Environmental Studies
Yahui Guang, Yongbin Huang
Summary: This study examines the impact of urban geometric form on household energy consumption and finds a negative relationship between urban form and household energy consumption, which is robust across different specifications.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Rui Zhang, Sheng Xu, Ruidong Sun
Summary: Based on data from the 2014 China Family Panel Studies, this study investigates the causal relationship between natural disasters and household debt using ordinary least squares and propensity score matching. The findings suggest that natural disasters not only increase the probability of households owning debt but also have a significant positive impact on the number of household debt. Heterogeneity analysis shows that natural disasters have a greater impact on families with large sizes and high-consumption levels, and household income and individual's health are potential mechanisms through which natural disasters affect household debt.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Yibin Ao, Hao Zhu, Yan Wang, Jiangxue Zhang, Yuan Chang
Summary: The active participation of rural residents in household waste classification is crucial for sustainable development. This study found that factors such as publicity and education, attitudes, subjective norms, past behavior, and sense of belonging significantly influence the intention and behavior of rural residents' household waste classification. Strengthening publicity and education on waste classification and enhancing residents' sense of belonging are important strategies to promote household waste classification in China's rural areas.
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
(2022)
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Economics
Rohan Best, Ryan Esplin
Summary: This study used various models and matching methods to analyze the factors related to the uptake of solar panels. The results indicate that high housing values and older respondent age are key factors promoting solar-panel uptake. While income has some positive impacts, detailed analysis shows its insignificance. Education and race variables have insignificant coefficients when controlling for key variables. This paper could provide a basis for future policy approaches, such as means testing based on asset thresholds rather than income thresholds.
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
N. Brahmanandam, R. Nagarajan, Srinivas Goli
Summary: The study examines the household environment conditions in India from 2004 to 2012, finding that socially deprived classes and economically poor households are more likely to remain in poor living conditions and have difficulty moving out of poverty. The regions in Central and Eastern India experienced the least upward movement from poor household environment conditions to middle and better-off conditions compared to other regions.
Article
Economics
Mary A. Burke, Ali Ozdagli
Summary: Recent research has shown mixed results on the relationship between inflation expectations and consumption, using qualitative measures of readiness to spend. This study uses survey panel data from the United States between 2009 and 2012 to reexamine this question and control for household heterogeneity. The findings suggest that expected inflation only increases durables spending for certain types of households, while nondurables spending does not respond to expected inflation. Furthermore, spending decreases with expected unemployment. These results indicate a limited stimulating effect of inflation expectations on aggregate consumption, which could be reversed if inflation and unemployment expectations change together.
REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Haruna Sekabira, Zainab Nansubuga, Stanley Peter Ddungu, Lydia Nazziwa
Summary: Improving food security and nutrition is a global challenge, and farm production diversity is seen as a viable pathway to improve household nutrition. However, there is mixed evidence on the association between farm production diversity and key nutrition indicators. A study using data from rural households in Uganda found that crop species count and animal species count were differently associated with household dietary diversity score, energy, and vitamin A sourced from markets. Crop species count consistently showed a strong positive association with energy and all studied micronutrients sourced from own farm produce consumption.
Article
Engineering, Civil
Arpita Asha Khanna, Ilka Dubernet, Patrick Jochem
Summary: This paper analyzes the heterogeneity in fuel price elasticities among German households for different socio-economic and regional characteristics using a pooled OLS model estimated on a German refuelling diary data set. The results contradict the existing literature and provide important insights for policy modellers in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in road transport.
Article
Economics
Debao Hu, Chenzhe Zhai, Zhen Yan
Summary: Using China Family Panel Studies data, we find that online and offline social interactions have a positive impact on household entrepreneurial choice, intensity, and performance. Our findings are robust considering the potential endogeneity problem. The mechanisms of information acquisition, relaxing financing constraints, and relative wealth concern are valid. Heterogeneity analysis shows that online social interaction has a more significant impact on entrepreneurs of rural migrant backgrounds and households in the eastern regions. Additionally, the promotion effect of social interactions is more pronounced for households with higher debt levels.
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Economics
Joachim Schleich, Johannes Schuler, Matthias Pfaff, Regine Frank
Summary: This paper investigates whether households change electricity consumption after switching to a green electricity tariff and finds that such a switch leads to a non-monetary renewable rebound effect, which persists for at least four years. The failure to account for this rebound effect may result in underestimating the costs of achieving energy and climate targets.
Article
Economics
Jianbo Luo
Summary: The study shows that individuals with high income maintain higher life satisfaction in the long run compared to the average population, even after five or more years. Similar results are obtained using different data reweighting methods.
Article
Economics
Binh Thanh La, Steven Lim, Michael P. Cameron, Tuyen Quang Tran, Minh Thi Nguyen
Summary: This study uses panel data to analyze the impact of absolute income and three specifications of comparison income on individual happiness. The results show that individuals compare themselves to multiple reference groups, with statistically significant results only achieved when one direction outweighs the other or when comparisons are made downward or upward.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
(2021)
