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This paper provides a literature review on wind power and externalities from multiple perspectives. Specifically, the economic rationale behind world-wide wind power deployment is to mitigate negative externalities of conventional electricity technologies, notably emissions from fossil fuels. However, wind power entails externalities itself. Wind turbines can lower quality of human life through noise ...
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Ecological Economics
141 (2017), S. 245-260
| Alexander Zerrahn
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The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we review model-based analyses that explore the role of power storage in energy systems with high shares of variable renewables. Second, we introduce a new model that is specifically designed for exploring long-term storage requirements. The literature survey focuses on recent contributions in the peer-reviewed energy economics and engineering literature. ...
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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
79 (2017),S. 1518-1534
| Alexander Zerrahn, Wolf-Peter Schill
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Using representative household survey data from Japan after the Fukushima accident, we estimate peoples' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for renewable, nuclear, and fossil fuels in electricity generation. We rely on random parameter econometric techniques to capture various degrees of heterogeneity between the respondents, and use detailed regional information to assess how WTP varies with the distance to ...
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Energy Economics
65 (2017), S. 262-270
| Katrin Rehdanz, Carsten Schröder, Daiju Narita, Toshihiro Okubo
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Redistributive policies can provide an insurance against future negative economic shocks. This, in turn, implies that an individual's demand for redistribution is expected to increase with her risk aversion. To test this prediction, we elicit risk aversion and demand for redistribution through a well-established set of measures in a representative sample of the Swedish population. We document a statistically ...
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Journal of Public Economics
153 (2017), S. 49-55
| Johanna Mollerstrom, Manja Gärtner, David Seim
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Economists consider personality traits to be stable, particularly throughout adulthood. However, evidence from psychological studies suggests that the stability assumption may not always be valid, as personality traits can respond to certain life events. Our paper analyzes whether and to what extent personality traits are malleable over a time span of eight years for a sample of working individuals. ...
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Journal of Economic Psychology
60 (2017), S. 71-91
| Silke Anger, Georg Camehl, Frauke Peter
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Throughout the world, governments foster the deployment of wind power to mitigate negative externalities of conventional electricity generation, notably CO2 emissions. Wind turbines, however, are not free of externalities themselves, particularly interference with landscape aesthetics. We quantify these negative externalities using the life satisfaction approach. To this end, we combine household data ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
82 (2017), S. 221-238
| Christian Krekel, Alexander Zerrahn
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In Germany, the respondents who had participated in the 2012 survey of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) were re-approached for the panel study PIAAC-L. PIAAC-L aims at investigating the longitudinal effects of skill outcomes over the life course and the development of the key skills assessed in PIAAC. Moreover, additional and alternative background information ...
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Large-Scale Assessment in Education
5 (2017), 11 S.
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Silke Martin, Anouk Zabal, Claus Carstensen, Jürgen Schupp
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Socioeconomic status (SES) and health during childhood have been consistently observed to be associated with health in old age in many studies. However, the exact mechanisms behind these two associations have not yet been fully understood. The key challenge is to understand how childhood SES and health are associated. Furthermore, data on childhood factors and life course mediators are sometimes unavailable, ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
31 (2017), S. 1-10
| Eduwin Pakpahan, Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger
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We compare seven established risk elicitation methods and investigate how robustly they explain eleven kinds of risky behavior with 760 individuals. Risk measures are positively correlated; however, their performance in explaining behavior is heterogeneous and, therefore, difficult to assess ex ante. Greater diversification across risk measures is conducive to closing this knowledge gap. What we find ...
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Journal of Economic Psychology
59 (2017), S. 59-86
| Lukas Menkhoff, Sahra Sakha
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This paper investigates the impact of changes in environmental policy stringency on industry- and firm-level productivity growth in a panel of OECD countries. To test the strong version of the Porter Hypothesis (PH), we extend a neo-Schumpeterian productivity model to allow for effects of environmental policies. We use a new environmental policy stringency (EPS) index and let the effect of countries׳ ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
81 (2017), S. 209-226
| Silvia Albrizio, Tomasz Kozluk, Vera Zipperer