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We use a unique dataset that combines the responses from an original survey of households, information about the structural characteristics of their homes, utility-provided longitudinal electricity usage records, plus utility program participation information, to study the uptake of energy...
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I analyze energy-efficiency policy as a prescription of a minimum-efficiency standard for energy-using household goods … like cars, building insulation, and home appliances. Such a policy has two effects. At the intensive margin, a household … consequences. I analyze the equilibrium effects of a minimum-efficiency standard, taking price adjustments and household …
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I analyze energy-efficiency policy as a prescription of a minimum-efficiency standard for energyusing household goods … like cars, building insulation, and home appliances. Such a policy has two effects. At the intensive margin, a household … consequences. I analyze the equilibrium effects of a minimum-efficiency standard, taking price adjustments and household …
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This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …
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a large amount of household and institutional waste by its residents and other types by visitors, and this is what the …
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On February 2011, the European Commission adopted a new strategy to improve measures and access to raw materials, considering that EU is high dependence of imports of them. The new strategy considers three pillars to improving raw materials access. One of them is boosting resource efficiency and...
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The aim of this study is to link variation in energy cost misperceptions to variation in households' energy consumption. The focus is on two sorts of misperceptions: First, present biased discounting of future energy costs and second, biased energy price beliefs. By running an artefactual field...
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Effective attention to information may play a prominent role in consumer choice for energy-intensive services and it may simply be a function of receiving timely information when consumption takes place. This paper investigates whether and why the timing of utility bills leads to salience bias...
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