Recent household surveys from 52 developing economies that include questions about energy use show that the most …

This paper studies consumer heterogeneity in the valuation of lifetime heating energy costs. The valuation is expressed … as the willingness to pay higher upfront costs to obtain savings over the lifetime of the heating system. The analysis … data allow estimating the WTP as a function of several observable household characteristics. The median WTP in the …

areas, over 80 percent of households resort to individual heating solutions. Every second household uses a traditional coal …In the Kyrgyz Republic, access to reliable and affordable heating is critical given the cold and long winters in its … mountainous regions. With central heating solutions such as district heating limited to the capital city Bishkek and other urban …

heating and cooking and awareness about harmful effects of indoor pollution due to the combustion of solid fuels for heating … and cooking. This study uses publicly available MICS Plus survey data from UNICEF. MICS Plus is a longitudinal household … where the decision maker is female are more likely to have a clean source of heating-a district heating system. The results …

heating can mitigate the health hazards associated with the burning of solid fuels. It is estimated that Household Air … scale up access to clean cooking and heating stoves for poor, primarily rural households, who are likely to continue using … heating; many of these households, located mainly in rural areas, are likely to continue using solid fuels in the near future …

This paper employs identical demographically representative discrete choice experiments (DCEs) on new heating systems …-ingness-to-pay (WTP) for rebates, heating cost savings, installation time (re-flecting "hassle costs") and warranty length. The results … from estimating coun-try-specific mixed logit models suggest that participants generally value rebates for new heating …