Social norms and energy conservation
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Social Norms and Energy Conservation
This paper evaluates a series of programs, run by a company called OPOWER, to send Home Energy Report letters to residential utility customers comparing their energy use to that of their neighbors. Using data from randomized natural eld experiments at 600,000 treatment and control households across the United States, I estimate that the programs reduce energy consumption by 1.1 to 2.8 percent ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2011.03.003