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Robust Decarbonization of the Us Power Sector: Policy Options 美国电力行业的强力脱碳:政策选择
Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.3386/W28677
J. Stock, D. Stuart
To reliably achieve deep decarbonization of the US power sector, a candidate policy must perform robustly across a range of possible future trajectories of demand, fossil fuel prices, and prices of new wind and solar capacity. Using a modified version of the NREL ReEDS model with scenarios that span different trajectories of demand, fuel prices, and technology costs, we find that some recently proposed policies can robustly achieve 80% decarbonization (relative to 2005 emissions) or more by 2035, but many do not. The two robustly successful policies are a tradeable performance standard (TPS) and a hybrid Clean Electricity Standard (CES) with a 100% clean target, partial crediting of gas generation, and a $40/mton CO2 alternative compliance payment (ACP) backstop. Both are nearly as cost effective as the emissions-equivalent efficient policy. A $40 carbon tax nearly achieves the robust 80% threshold and, in most scenarios, drives deep decarbonization. A 90% CES (without partial crediting) fails to achieve robust 2035 decarbonization because it need not drive coal out of the system. Simply extending renewable energy tax credits, which are set to expire, does not drive significant decarbonization in most scenarios, nor does relying on increased ambition in green-leaning states.
为了可靠地实现美国电力行业的深度脱碳,候选政策必须在一系列可能的未来需求轨迹、化石燃料价格以及新的风能和太阳能容量价格中表现强劲。使用NREL reed模型的修改版本,包括跨越不同需求、燃料价格和技术成本轨迹的情景,我们发现,一些最近提出的政策可以在2035年之前实现80%或更多的脱碳(相对于2005年的排放量),但许多政策无法实现。两个非常成功的政策是可交易性能标准(TPS)和混合清洁电力标准(CES),其100%的清洁目标,部分天然气发电信用,以及40美元/吨的二氧化碳替代合规支付(ACP)支持。这两种方法的成本效益几乎与排放量相等的高效政策一样高。40美元的碳税几乎达到了80%的门槛,在大多数情况下,这将推动深度脱碳。90%的CES(没有部分信用额度)无法实现2035年的强劲脱碳,因为它不需要将煤炭从系统中剔除。在大多数情况下,简单地延长即将到期的可再生能源税收抵免,并不能推动显著的脱碳,依赖于绿色倾向州的雄心壮志也无济于事。
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引用次数: 14
Correcting Perceived Social Distancing Norms to Combat Covid-19 纠正感知到的社会距离规范以对抗Covid-19
Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.3386/W28651
James Allen IV, Arlete Mahumane, J. Riddell, Tanya Rosenblat, Dean Yang, Hang Yu
Can informing people of high community support for social distancing encourage them to do more of it? In theory, the impact of such an intervention on social distancing is ambiguous, and depends on the relative magnitudes of free-riding and perceived-infectiousness effects. We randomly assigned a treatment providing information on true high rates of community social distancing support. We estimate impacts on social distancing, measured using a combination of self-reports and reports of others. While experts surveyed in advance expected the treatment to increase social distancing, we find that its average effect is close to zero and significantly lower than expert predictions. The treatment’s effect is heterogeneous, as predicted by theory: it decreases social distancing where current COVID-19 cases are low (where free-riding dominates), but increases it where cases are high (where the perceived-infectiousness effect dominates).
告知人们社区对保持社交距离的高度支持是否能鼓励他们做得更多?理论上,这种干预对社会距离的影响是模糊的,取决于搭便车和感知传染性影响的相对程度。我们随机分配了一种治疗方法,提供了社区保持社会距离支持的真正高比率的信息。我们通过结合自我报告和他人报告来估计对社交距离的影响。虽然事先接受调查的专家预计这种治疗会增加社交距离,但我们发现其平均效果接近于零,远低于专家的预测。正如理论所预测的那样,这种治疗的效果是不一样的:在当前COVID-19病例较少的地方(搭便车占主导地位),它会减少社会距离,但在病例较多的地方(感知传染性影响占主导地位),它会增加社会距离。
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引用次数: 14
Shaping the Habits of Teen Drivers 塑造青少年司机的习惯
Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.3386/W28707
T. Moore, Todd Morris
Teens are risky drivers and often subject to extra restrictions. We examine the effects of an Australian intervention banning first-year drivers from carrying multiple passengers between 11:00pm and 4:59am, which had represented 3% of their accidents and 18% of their fatalities. Using daytime outcomes to account for counterfactual crash risks, we find the reform more than halves targeted crashes, casualties and deaths. The restriction also lowers crashes earlier in the evening and beyond the first year, suggesting it has broad and persistent effects on driving behavior. Overall, this targeted intervention delivers gains comparable to harsher restrictions that delay teen driving. Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this paper without additional charge at www.nber.org.
青少年是危险的司机,经常受到额外的限制。我们研究了澳大利亚一项干预措施的影响,该措施禁止第一年驾驶的司机在晚上11点到凌晨4点59分之间搭载多名乘客,这占他们的交通事故的3%,占死亡人数的18%。使用白天的结果来解释反事实的撞车风险,我们发现改革有一半以上是针对撞车、伤亡和死亡的。这一限制还降低了夜间早些时候和第一年以后的撞车事故,表明它对驾驶行为有广泛而持久的影响。总的来说,这种有针对性的干预所带来的收益与推迟青少年驾驶的严厉限制相当。国家经济研究局工作论文系列的机构订阅者和发展中国家的居民可以在www.nber.org免费下载本文。
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引用次数: 3
Minority Turnout and Representation Under Cumulative Voting. An Experiment 累积投票制下的少数民族投票率和代表权。一个实验
Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.3386/W28674
A. Casella, Jeffrey J. Guo, Michelle Jiang
Under majoritarian election systems, securing participation and representation of minorities remains an open problem, made salient in the US by its history of voter suppression. One remedy recommended by the courts is Cumulative Voting (CV): each voter has as many votes as open positions and can cumulate votes on as few candidates as desired. Theory predicts that CV encourages the minority to overcome obstacles to voting: although each voter is treated equally, CV increases minority's turnout relative to the majority, and the minority's share of seats won. A lab experiment based on a costly voting design strongly supports both predictions.

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在多数选举制度下,确保少数群体的参与和代表权仍然是一个悬而未决的问题,这在美国因其压制选民的历史而显得尤为突出。法院推荐的一种补救办法是累积投票(CV):每个选民拥有与空缺职位相同数量的选票,并且可以根据需要向尽可能少的候选人累积选票。理论预测,CV鼓励少数人克服投票障碍:尽管每个选民都受到平等对待,CV增加了少数人相对于多数人的投票率,以及少数人赢得的席位份额。一个基于昂贵投票设计的实验室实验强烈支持这两种预测。国家经济研究局工作论文系列的机构订阅者和发展中国家的居民可以在www.nber.org免费下载本文。
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引用次数: 2
Changing Returns to Scale in Manufacturing 1880-1930: The Rise of (Skilled) Labor? 1880-1930年制造业规模报酬的变化:(熟练)劳动力的崛起?
Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.3386/W28633
J. Lafortune, Ethan G. Lewis, J. Martínez, José Tessada
This paper estimates returns to scale for manufacturing industries around the turn of the twentieth century in the United States by exploiting an industry-city panel data for the years 1880-1930. We estimate decreasing returns to scale on average over the period, contrary to most of the existing literature, because our empirical methodology allows us to separate returns to scale from "agglomeration" effects. We also find that returns to scale grew substantially after 1910, mostly because the return to labor grew. We find that this was more marked in industries that were more intensive in human capital and energy at the beginning of the period and in cells that were less competitive. Overall, results suggest that technological change and lack of initial competition played relevant roles in the rise of larger establishments in manufacturing.
本文利用1880-1930年的工业-城市面板数据,估算了20世纪之交美国制造业的规模回报。与大多数现有文献相反,我们估计在此期间平均规模收益会减少,因为我们的经验方法允许我们将规模收益与“集聚”效应分开。我们还发现,1910年后规模回报大幅增长,主要是因为劳动力回报增长。我们发现,这在人力资本和能源密集度较高的行业和竞争力较弱的细胞中更为明显。总体而言,研究结果表明,技术变革和缺乏初始竞争在制造业大型企业的崛起中发挥了相关作用。
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引用次数: 1
The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on Covid-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration 国内旅行禁令对Covid-19的影响在持续时间上是非线性的
Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.3386/W28699
Fiona Burlig, Anant Sudarshan, Garrison Schlauch
Domestic mobility restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 are widespread in developing countries, and have trapped millions of migrant workers in hotspot cities. We show that bans can increase cumulative infections relative to a counterfactual sans restrictions. A SEIR model shows bans’ impacts are nonlinear in duration. We empirically test this hypothesis using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya. Although very short and long restrictions limit the spread of disease, moderately lengthy restrictions substantially increase infections. This underscores the importance of considering duration in mobility-restricting policy decisions in developing countries.
为控制疫情蔓延,发展中国家普遍实行国内流动限制,数百万农民工被困在热点城市。我们表明,相对于没有限制的反事实,禁令可以增加累积感染。SEIR模型表明禁令的影响在持续时间上是非线性的。我们利用印度的自然实验以及中国、印度尼西亚、菲律宾、南非和肯尼亚的数据对这一假设进行了实证检验。虽然短期和长期的限制限制了疾病的传播,但适度的长期限制大大增加了感染。这强调了在发展中国家限制人口流动的政策决定中考虑持续时间的重要性。
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引用次数: 3
The Welfare Effect of a Consumer Subsidy with Price Ceilings: The Case of Chinese Cell Phones 具有价格上限的消费者补贴的福利效应:以中国手机为例
Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.3386/W28659
Ying Fan, Ge Zhang
Subsidies to consumers may cause firms to charge higher prices, which offsets consumer benefits from subsidies. We study a subsidy program design that mitigates such price increases by making products' eligibility for a subsidy dependent on firms' commitment to price ceilings. To quantify the importance of such competition for eligibility, we develop a structural model and an estimation procedure that accommodate binding pricing constraints. We find that competition for eligibility mitigates the price increases arising from the subsidy and even leads to a reduction in prices for some products. It improves consumer and total surpluses while limiting government subsidy payments.

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对消费者的补贴可能导致企业收取更高的价格,从而抵消了补贴给消费者带来的好处。我们研究了一种补贴方案设计,通过使产品降价来缓解这种价格上涨。获得补贴的资格取决于企业的经营状况;承诺价格上限。为了量化这种竞争对资格的重要性,我们开发了一个结构模型和一个容纳约束性定价约束的估计程序。我们发现,对资格的竞争减轻了补贴引起的价格上涨,甚至导致某些产品的价格下降。它改善了消费者和总盈余,同时限制了政府的补贴支付。国家经济研究局工作论文系列的机构订阅者和发展中国家的居民可以在www.nber.org免费下载本文。
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引用次数: 4
Family Companionship and Elderly Suicide: Evidence from the Chinese Lunar New Year 家庭陪伴与老年人自杀:来自中国农历新年的证据
Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.3386/W28566
Hanming Fang, Ziteng Lei, Liguo Lin, Peng Zhang, Maigeng Zhou
Mental health problems among the elderly have attracted increasing attention. The most serious mental health problems may result in suicide, and lack of family companionship is often speculated to be a major cause. In this paper, we use high-frequency suicide rate data and utilize a novel temporal variation in the lunisolar calendar to provide evidence on the protective effects of the Chinese Lunar New Year (when the elderly people receive unusually high level of family companionship) on elderly suicide. We find that elderly suicide rate decreases by 8.7% during the Chinese Lunar New Year. In addition, the protective effects are stronger in counties where the typical level of daily family companionship for the elderly is lower. By contrast, we do not find similar protective effects for young and middle-age cohorts. We consider a variety of alternative mechanisms, and conclude that family companionship is an important channel for the protective effects of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Our study calls for greater attention to the mental health status and suicide problem of the elderly, especially with the rapid population aging and increasing prevalence of the “empty-nest” elderly in developing countries.

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老年人的心理健康问题已引起越来越多的关注。最严重的心理健康问题可能导致自杀,而缺乏家庭陪伴通常被认为是一个主要原因。在本文中,我们使用高频自杀率数据,并利用一个新的阴阳历时间变化来提供证据,证明中国农历新年(当老年人获得异常高水平的家庭陪伴时)对老年人自杀的保护作用。我们发现,在农历新年期间,老年人自杀率下降了8.7%。此外,在老年人日常家庭陪伴的典型水平较低的县,保护作用更强。相比之下,我们没有发现对年轻人和中年人有类似的保护作用。我们考虑了多种替代机制,并得出结论,家庭陪伴是中国农历新年保护作用的重要渠道。我们的研究呼吁更多地关注老年人的心理健康状况和自杀问题,特别是随着人口老龄化的快速发展和发展中国家“空巢”老年人的日益流行。国家经济研究局工作论文系列的机构订阅者和发展中国家的居民可以在www.nber.org免费下载本文。
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引用次数: 3
Does Leed Certification Save Energy? Evidence from Federal Buildings Leed认证节能吗?来自联邦大楼的证据
Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.3386/W28612
Karen Clay, Edson Severnini, Xiaochen Sun
In the absence of first-best climate policy, energy efficiency has figured prominently among strategies to reduce carbon emissions. One of the most sought-after green certification in the building sector is the internationally recognized Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED). This paper examines the effects of LEED certification on energy efficiency in federally owned buildings. Using propensity score matching and difference in differences models, we find no effect of LEED certification on average energy consumption. This reflects the fact that energy use is one of a number of attributes that receives scores under the LEED program. Buildings with above average energy scores have greater energy efficiency post-certification. Some other attributes, notably higher water scores, decrease energy efficiency post-certification. Trade-offs across LEED attributes account for the absence of energy savings on average. If energy efficiency is the primary policy goal, LEED certification may not be the most effective means to reach that goal.

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在缺乏最佳气候政策的情况下,能源效率在减少碳排放的战略中占据了突出地位。建筑领域最受欢迎的绿色认证之一是国际公认的能源与环境设计领导力(LEED)。本文考察了LEED认证对联邦所有建筑能源效率的影响。利用倾向得分匹配和差异模型的差异,我们发现LEED认证对平均能耗没有影响。这反映了这样一个事实,即能源使用是在LEED项目中获得分数的众多属性之一。能源得分高于平均水平的建筑在认证后能效更高。其他一些属性,特别是更高的水得分,降低了认证后的能源效率。LEED属性之间的权衡解释了平均没有节能的原因。如果能源效率是主要的政策目标,那么LEED认证可能不是实现这一目标的最有效手段。国家经济研究局工作论文系列的机构订阅者和发展中国家的居民可以在www.nber.org免费下载本文。
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引用次数: 3
Service-Led or Service-Biased Growth? Equilibrium Development Accounting Across Indian Districts 服务业主导还是服务业偏向?均衡发展会计在印度地区
Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.3386/W28551
Tianyu Fan, M. Peters, Fabrizio Zilibotti
In many developing countries today, the structural transformation is a shift of employment out of agriculture into the service sector. By contrast, industrial employment is mostly stagnant. Is the service sector an engine of growth and hence growth service led? Or is its expansion a mere corollary of growth, where rising incomes stemming from productivity growth in goods-producing industries increases the demand for services? To determine whether growth is service led or service biased, we estimate a spatial equilibrium model with nonhomothetic preferences. Our methodology is in the spirit of development accounting and lends itself to a quantitative assessment of both the aggregate and the heterogenous welfare effects of sectoral productivity growth. In an application to India, we find that productivity growth in consumer services such as retail and hospitality was an important driver of rising living standards between 1987 and 2011. However, such benefits were highly skewed and accrued mostly to high-income households living in urbanized locations. Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this paper without additional charge at www.nber.org.
在今天的许多发展中国家,结构转型是就业从农业转向服务业。相比之下,工业就业基本上停滞不前。服务业是经济增长的引擎吗?或者,它的扩张仅仅是经济增长的必然结果,因为商品生产行业的生产率增长带来的收入增加,增加了对服务的需求?为了确定增长是服务主导还是服务偏向,我们估计了一个具有非同质偏好的空间均衡模型。我们的方法本着发展核算的精神,有助于对部门生产率增长的总体和异质性福利影响进行定量评估。在对印度的一项应用中,我们发现,零售和酒店业等消费服务业的生产率增长是1987年至2011年间生活水平提高的重要推动力。然而,这些好处是高度倾斜的,主要是生活在城市化地区的高收入家庭。国家经济研究局工作论文系列的机构订阅者和发展中国家的居民可以在www.nber.org免费下载本文。
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