Heterogeneity in the Rebound Effect: Evidence from Efficient Lighting Subsidies

This paper quantifies heterogeneity in rebound effects from policy-induced energy efficiency improvements by income and home size. We do so a relatively understudied context: residential lighting. context allows us to separately estimate for services (lighting hours) electricity consumption. identify the effect of household-level subsidy uptake using instrumental variables program awareness. find that are larger low-income households those smaller homes. also show is not large enough “backfire” all home-size subsamples exhibit net savings.