Empirical insights on household behavior and electricity consumption patterns in this book reveal that, in Europe and …Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Preface: Why Look at the Household Effects of Reform … -- Chapter 2 Using Poverty and Social Impact Analysis to Assess the Distributional Impact of Power Sector Reforms -- Why These …

-- Conclusions -- 4. Maintaining Power to the Poor -- Household Energy Use Patterns Differ -- Tariffs Rose -- The Burden Increased …

the widespread use of increasing-block pricing (IBP), under which the marginal price to the household increases as its … has adopted some of the most steeply increasing-block tariffs in electric utility history. Combining household … approach to studying (or controlling for) income distribution effects by using median household income within a census block …