Greece has been hit particularly hard and insistently long by the economic recession since 2008, a development which inevitably affected the households’ behaviour regarding energy consumption and space heating in particular. The results of a field study conducted over two consecutive heating periods are presented and evaluated in the current paper. It is of great interest to analyze and identif...

Energy conservation is a necessary form of green behaviour, as energy production and consumption gravely affect the climate. The current study aimed to explore behaviour among Chinese households based on value-belief-norm framework. This used cross-sectional design collected quantitative data from 1671 respondents through an online survey. hybrid analysis techniques partial least squares struct...

Household energy use is increasingly important in the context of fuel poverty and the equity debate as well as in relation to energy saving and efficiency policies. We first explore the link between household energy spending and income. We use a panel dataset from a comprehensive survey of UK households from 1991 to 2007 comprising over 77,000 observations to analyse electricity, gas, and overa...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: C68 D57 D58 Q41 Q43 Q48 Keywords: Energy efficiency Indirect rebound effects Economy-wide rebound effects Household energy consumption CGE models This paper investigates the economic impact of a 5% improvement in the UK household energy efficiency, focussing specifically on total energy rebound effects. The impact is measured through simulations using m...

We examine the ‘financial accelerator’ model of household behaviour, whereby shocks to household balance sheets increase the amplitude of fluctuations in consumer spending by tightening or unbinding collateral constraints. We construct an alternative model where households have access to both secured and unsecured debt, and examine the consequences of shocks to household balance sheets (primari...

BACKGROUND The promotion of household water treatment and handwashing with soap has led to large reductions in child diarrhoea in randomized efficacy trials. Currently, we know little about the health effectiveness of behaviour-based water and hygiene interventions after the conclusion of intervention activities. METHODS We present an extension of previously published design (propensity score...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a short set of questions about foods in the household can provide information about the fat-related dietary behaviour of individual household members in less-acculturated Chinese populations. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. PARTICIPANTS The study population included 244 adult females of Chinese ethnicity in Seattle, WA, and Vancouver, BC, Canada. SETTING Bili...