More Money or Better Procedures? Evidence from an Energy Efficiency Assistance Program
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- Chlond, Bettina & Goeschl, Timo & Kesternich, Martin, 2022. "More money or better procedures? Evidence from an energy efficiency assistance program," Working Papers 0716, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics.
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Keywords
Public behavioral economics; energy efficiency; low-income households; durable replacement; energy poverty; technology adoption.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
- D15 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2022-06-27 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-REG-2022-06-27 (Regulation)
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