Mariaelisa Graff
Biographic Data
| ID | 190584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariaelisa Graff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariaelisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Graff |
| SIGNATURE | GRAFF M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2869-7597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Energy insecurity among LGBTQ households in the United States
Frontiers of weatherization
Low-income weatherization programs provide home energy efficiency upgrades to reduce utility costs, improve indoor comfort, and address the health and safety needs of income-constrained households. This review examines seventeen retrospective, outcome-focused evaluations of weatherization programs conducted over the past four decades to assess how program evaluation methods have evolved, where critical gaps remain, and how future studies can impr…
Reducing administrative burdens in an energy bill assistance program
This article investigates the impact of categorical eligibility, a policy aimed at easing administrative burdens, on outcomes of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Through two-way fixed effect analyses, the study extends the focus of administrative burden scholarship beyond program take-up and examines the programmatic costs of reducing burdens in a new empirical context – a budget-constrained program. Findings indicate categorical el…
The local context of energy assistance
Housing costs are not a monolith
Housing cost burden, defined as the percentage of income spent on rent/mortgage and utilities, is a growing problem as rents, mortgage interest rates, electricity, and gas costs have all increased exponentially. Many studies on housing cost burden and housing precarity focus on families' overall housing costs, leaving an important component of housing precarity—energy bills—unexplored. The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship b…
Climate Change and Energy Insecurity
Energy insecurity, or a household's inability to afford its basic energy needs, is an under-appreciated material hardship that millions of low-income U.S. households face every month. When households experience energy insecurity, they are more likely to take financial risks, engage in unsafe coping strategies, as well as suffer adverse mental and physical impacts as they try to pay their energy bills and avoid utility disconnection. In this comme…
The persistence of household energy insecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study analyzes household energy insecurity in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous research is limited by mostly cross-sectional research designs that do not allow scholars to study the persistency of this specific type of material hardship. We fill this gap by analyzing data from an original, nationally-representative, panel survey of low-income households. We find high levels of energy insecurity durin…
Sociodemographic disparities in energy insecurity among low-income households before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
Which households are energy insecure? An empirical analysis of race, housing conditions, and energy burdens in the United States
Innovation in Financing Energy‐Efficient and Renewable Energy Upgrades
Objective We examine whether Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs, an innovative financing mechanism using municipal bonds to finance the up‐front cost of household energy conservation projects, reduced conventional energy purchases by residential customers and increased energy generated through residential solar panel and fuel cell installations. Methods Using data on municipal bond issuances, electricity and natural gas purchases, and…
A framework for evaluating geographic disparities in energy transition vulnerability
Stakeholder perceptions of the United States energy transition
Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans
The interaction between physical activity and obesity gene variants in association with BMI
Childhood nutrition and later fertility
Better childhood nutrition is associated with earlier physical maturation during adolescence and increased schooling attainment. However, as earlier onset of puberty and increased schooling can have opposing effects on fertility, the net effect of improvements in childhood nutrition on a woman’s fertility are uncertain. Using path analysis, we estimate the strength of the pathways between childhood growth and subsequent fertility outcomes in Guat…
A fingerprint characteristic associated with the early prenatal environment
Fingerprints and fingertip ridge counts (RCs) have a significant genetic component. However, they also reflect the nongenetic environment of early pregnancy, an important time window for tissue differentiation and organogenesis. Fingerprints are permanently configured before the 20th week of gestation, and each fingertip's RC is related to the growth and regression of its early fetal volar pads. Rostral and caudal aspects of the embryonic limb bu…
Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans
Which households are energy insecure? An empirical analysis of race, housing conditions, and energy burdens in the United States
Stakeholder perceptions of the United States energy transition
Childhood nutrition and later fertility
Better childhood nutrition is associated with earlier physical maturation during adolescence and increased schooling attainment. However, as earlier onset of puberty and increased schooling can have opposing effects on fertility, the net effect of improvements in childhood nutrition on a woman’s fertility are uncertain. Using path analysis, we estimate the strength of the pathways between childhood growth and subsequent fertility outcomes in Guat…
Reducing administrative burdens in an energy bill assistance program
This article investigates the impact of categorical eligibility, a policy aimed at easing administrative burdens, on outcomes of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Through two-way fixed effect analyses, the study extends the focus of administrative burden scholarship beyond program take-up and examines the programmatic costs of reducing burdens in a new empirical context – a budget-constrained program. Findings indicate categorical el…
Innovation in Financing Energy‐Efficient and Renewable Energy Upgrades
Objective We examine whether Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs, an innovative financing mechanism using municipal bonds to finance the up‐front cost of household energy conservation projects, reduced conventional energy purchases by residential customers and increased energy generated through residential solar panel and fuel cell installations. Methods Using data on municipal bond issuances, electricity and natural gas purchases, and…
The interaction between physical activity and obesity gene variants in association with BMI
A fingerprint characteristic associated with the early prenatal environment
Fingerprints and fingertip ridge counts (RCs) have a significant genetic component. However, they also reflect the nongenetic environment of early pregnancy, an important time window for tissue differentiation and organogenesis. Fingerprints are permanently configured before the 20th week of gestation, and each fingertip's RC is related to the growth and regression of its early fetal volar pads. Rostral and caudal aspects of the embryonic limb bu…
Childhood nutrition and later fertility
Better childhood nutrition is associated with earlier physical maturation during adolescence and increased schooling attainment. However, as earlier onset of puberty and increased schooling can have opposing effects on fertility, the net effect of improvements in childhood nutrition on a woman’s fertility are uncertain. Using path analysis, we estimate the strength of the pathways between childhood growth and subsequent fertility outcomes in Guat…
The interaction between physical activity and obesity gene variants in association with BMI
Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans
A framework for evaluating geographic disparities in energy transition vulnerability
Stakeholder perceptions of the United States energy transition
Innovation in Financing Energy‐Efficient and Renewable Energy Upgrades
Objective We examine whether Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs, an innovative financing mechanism using municipal bonds to finance the up‐front cost of household energy conservation projects, reduced conventional energy purchases by residential customers and increased energy generated through residential solar panel and fuel cell installations. Methods Using data on municipal bond issuances, electricity and natural gas purchases, and…
Sociodemographic disparities in energy insecurity among low-income households before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
Which households are energy insecure? An empirical analysis of race, housing conditions, and energy burdens in the United States
Climate Change and Energy Insecurity
Energy insecurity, or a household's inability to afford its basic energy needs, is an under-appreciated material hardship that millions of low-income U.S. households face every month. When households experience energy insecurity, they are more likely to take financial risks, engage in unsafe coping strategies, as well as suffer adverse mental and physical impacts as they try to pay their energy bills and avoid utility disconnection. In this comme…
The persistence of household energy insecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study analyzes household energy insecurity in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous research is limited by mostly cross-sectional research designs that do not allow scholars to study the persistency of this specific type of material hardship. We fill this gap by analyzing data from an original, nationally-representative, panel survey of low-income households. We find high levels of energy insecurity durin…
Housing costs are not a monolith
Housing cost burden, defined as the percentage of income spent on rent/mortgage and utilities, is a growing problem as rents, mortgage interest rates, electricity, and gas costs have all increased exponentially. Many studies on housing cost burden and housing precarity focus on families' overall housing costs, leaving an important component of housing precarity—energy bills—unexplored. The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship b…
Frontiers of weatherization
Low-income weatherization programs provide home energy efficiency upgrades to reduce utility costs, improve indoor comfort, and address the health and safety needs of income-constrained households. This review examines seventeen retrospective, outcome-focused evaluations of weatherization programs conducted over the past four decades to assess how program evaluation methods have evolved, where critical gaps remain, and how future studies can impr…
Reducing administrative burdens in an energy bill assistance program
This article investigates the impact of categorical eligibility, a policy aimed at easing administrative burdens, on outcomes of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Through two-way fixed effect analyses, the study extends the focus of administrative burden scholarship beyond program take-up and examines the programmatic costs of reducing burdens in a new empirical context – a budget-constrained program. Findings indicate categorical el…
The local context of energy assistance
Energy insecurity among LGBTQ households in the United States
Business (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (9 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)