Can information about energy costs affect consumers’ choices? Evidence from a field experiment

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2022.02.014

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DOI	10.1016/j.jebo.2022.02.014
	Can information about energy costs affect consumers’ choices? Evidence from a field experiment
	Nina Boogen, Claudio Daminato, Massimo Filippini and Adrian Obrist
	2022
出版年	2022
国家	瑞士
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	Whether consumers are fully informed and attentive when investing in energy efficiency is still hotly debated. We experimentally evaluate the role of imperfect information about or limited attention to energy costs in the demand for energy-consuming household durables in Switzerland. Using in-home visits, we collect unique data on the characteristics of participants’ current home appliances and light bulbs. Our intervention exploits this data to provide customized information about the potential of monetary savings from adopting new, comparable, and efficient durables. We find a substantial information treatment effect on the energy efficiency of the newly purchased durables. A larger potential of monetary savings induces larger durables choices responses. These findings provide suggestive evidence that the informational content of our intervention played a significant role in determining the observed durables choices responses.
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来源平台	Centre for Energy Policy and Economics
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/347645
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nina Boogen, Claudio Daminato, Massimo Filippini and Adrian Obrist. Can information about energy costs affect consumers’ choices? Evidence from a field experiment,2022.