Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program*
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Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program
A growing number of policies and programs aim to increase investment in energy efficiency, because conventional wisdom suggests that people fail to take-up these investments even though they have positive private returns and generate environmental benefits. Many explanations for this energy efficiency gap have been put forward but there has been surprisingly little field testing of whether the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Quarterly Journal of Economics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0033-5533,1531-4650
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjy005