Purpose: This paper aims to investigate whether improvement in human capital can foster energy conservation by reducing the energy consumption in India using annual data from 1980 to 2014. Further, this study examines the relationship between human capital and various forms of energy...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether the electricity consumption patterns across Indian states do converge. Design/methodology/approach: This study considers 18 Indian states spanning over the period 1970-1971 and 2014-2015, using the recently developed Phillips and Sul...