IF 8.2 1区经济学

Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1086/736770

Denis Chetverikov, Jesper Riis-Vestergaard Sørensen

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Secularity and migration aspirations in the Arab world 阿拉伯世界的世俗主义和移民愿望

IF 4.8 1区经济学

World Development Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107145

Hajare El Hadri , Réda Marakbi

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Backup power or bill savings? How electricity tariffs impact residential solar-plus-storage usage in the United States 备用电源还是节省电费？电价如何影响美国住宅太阳能+储能的使用

IF 4.4 3区经济学

Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.102035

Will Gorman, Galen Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Juan Pablo Carvallo

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Optimizing utility-scale solar siting for local economic benefits and regional decarbonization 优化公用事业规模的太阳能选址，以实现当地经济效益和区域脱碳

IF 9.2 2区经济学

Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114834

Papa Yaw Owusu-Obeng , Steven R. Miller , Sarah Banas Mills , Michael T. Craig

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Rural Infrastructure Supply and Population Mobility—An Empirical Analysis Based on Microdata for Rural China 农村基础设施供给与人口流动——基于中国农村微观数据的实证分析

IF 2.1 3区经济学

Growth and Change Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1111/grow.70049

Yunxing Song, Jiguang Zhu, Yan Song

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Energy at the fair: County fair sponsorship patterns from the energy sector in the United States 展会上的能源：来自美国能源部门的县展会赞助模式

IF 7.4 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104245

Ana Martinez, Pranav Moudgalya, Dustin Tingley

{"title":"Energy at the fair: County fair sponsorship patterns from the energy sector in the United States","authors":"Ana Martinez, Pranav Moudgalya, Dustin Tingley","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>County fairs are a common feature in the American social landscape. As with many local social institutions, companies and other organizations have a chance to sponsor county fairs. These sponsorships help put on the fairs and give organizations an opportunity to advertise and signal to the local community their involvement. In this paper, we review the small literature on the motivations and effects of sponsorships and then turn to a set of empirical questions. First, we examine the distribution of sponsors from the energy sector and compare the sponsorship patterns of traditional fossil fuel companies and those of firms working in the renewable energy sector. Our sample of US counties covers counties with active fossil and or renewable energy sectors. We also collected all counties in several states and all state-wide fairs. Second, we use a national survey to examine perceptions of sponsorships and support for companies that do or do not sponsor county fairs. Finally, we leave the fair and catalog and compare how large fossil fuel and renewable energy firms display community engagement efforts on their websites to understand how communities may perceive companies, as well as to provide a lens on the extent to which these companies prioritize community-level investments. By and large, we find that renewable energy has a decidedly lower sponsorship and community engagement presence compared to fossil fuel companies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104245"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144916532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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On-the-job search and the productivity-wage gap 在职求职和生产率-工资差距

IF 2.4 2区经济学

European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105127

Sushant Acharya , Shu Lin Wee

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A new measure of climate transition risk based on distance to a global emission factor frontier 基于全球排放因子前沿距离的气候转型风险新测度

IF 6.3 2区经济学

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108742

Benjamin N. Dennis , Talan B. İsçan

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Survival of the largest: Why regulators fail to develop a heterogeneous wind energy sector 最大企业的生存：为什么监管机构未能发展一个多元化的风能行业

IF 9.2 2区经济学

Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114849

Ariel Paz-Sawicki , Itay Fishhendler , David Katz

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Determinants of incremental housing: An emerging city perspective from the Global South 增量住房的决定因素：来自全球南方的新兴城市视角

IF 6.6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106408

Stephen Ameyaw , Frank Gyamfi-Yeboah , Nicholas Addai Boamah , Eric Paul Tudzi

{"title":"Determinants of incremental housing: An emerging city perspective from the Global South","authors":"Stephen Ameyaw , Frank Gyamfi-Yeboah , Nicholas Addai Boamah , Eric Paul Tudzi","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106408","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106408","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Incremental housing (IH) is the dominant housing approach in Ghana and several other countries in the global south. The phenomenon has received little attention in housing literature compared to mortgage finance. This paper empirically examines the determinants of IH from the perspective of an emerging city in Ghana using Exploratory Factor Analysis. The results identify builder control factors, existing property characteristics, perceived housing approach, financial inclinations, financial barriers, economic barriers, perceived cost, and knowledge/cultural factors as the key underlying factors. Contrary to conventional views, the findings suggest that builder control factors primarily explain IH in the study area. Economic and financial factors are found to be secondary. The results challenge the idea that IH mainly results from market failure and an inefficient housing approach. This indicates that IH is likely to continue even if mortgage market bottlenecks are addressed. Therefore, IH should be recognised as a viable alternative housing approach that warrants policy support and financial backing from formal housing institutions to improve housing outcomes. Consequently, housing finance institutions need to develop and promote loan products that are suitable for facilitating the IH process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 106408"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144907364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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