Purpose This research investigates how subsidy programs in Vietnam's residential electricity market affect consumers' well-being. Design/methodology/approach Two perspectives are employed: cash transfer and quantity-based subsidy. The effectiveness of is measured three ways: benefit incidence, beneficiary incidence materiality. established under the increasing block rate pricing, with first two...

Often, vaccination programs are carried out based on self-interest rather than being mandatory. Owing to the perceptions about risks associated with vaccines and the ‘herd immunity’ effect, it may provide suboptimal vaccination coverage for the population as a whole. In this case, some subsidy policies may be offered by the government to promote vaccination coverage. But, not all subsidy polici...

Economic theory suggests that energy subsidies can lead to excessive consumption and environmental degradation. However, the precise impact of is not well understood. We analyze a large subsidy: California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE). CARE provides price reduction low-income consumers natural gas electricity. Using field experiment, we estimate elasticity demand be about -0.35 customers. ...

Abstract This paper assesses to which degree housing purchase subsidies are capitalized into property prices. Using a large-scale micro-dataset on German house prices, I exploit the introduction of new subsidy scheme in state Bavaria. My difference-in-difference estimations at Bavarian interstate border indicate that prices single-family homes increased by approximately 10,000 euros more region...

Releasing prices and performing cash subsidy payment to all applicants with a different income level create differences in the method of household function and different services of organizations including waste and recycling management organization. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of cash subsidy payment on the quantity of domestic waste in Rasht (Guilan province, Iran)....

This paper investigates Government intervention in a three-echelon supply chain comprising one manufacturer and retailer. is the top level member trying to reduce environmental impacts based on amount of carbon emission during production process. controls by collecting tax from retailer which indirectly paid customer paying subsidy/imposing fine manufacturer. encourages contributing some subsid...

  The study examines the effects of awareness of fertilizer subsidy on the yield of crops among rural farmers in Ghana. Random sampling was used to select six communities and 10 households per community. They include Bawku, Navrongo, Tolon kumbungu and Walewale from the Northern part and Ejura and Atebubu in the Southern part of Ghana. Primary data were collected from the sampled household by ...