In this paper we look at the role of pre-payment (in the context of prepayment metering) for household electricity … consumption. Using a matching approach, we find that households paying their electricity up-front tend to consume no less … electricity than households paying ex post. This is despite facing a higher tariff and higher transaction costs. In the second …

It is a well established fact that electricity use increases with income. What is less well known is that - despite the … positive correlation between electricity use and income - a significant portion of low-income households consume very large … amounts of electricity. In this paper, we make a first step towards better understanding this phenomenon. Specifically, we …