期刊
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
卷 192, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107264
关键词
Electricity consumption; Values; Norms; Economic preferences; Econometric analysis
资金
- German Federal Ministry of Edu-cation and Research [01UN1220B]
This paper empirically examines the relevance of multiple explanatory factors for electricity consumption based on data from over 3700 citizens in Germany. The study finds that individual housing and dwelling characteristics as well as socio-demographics have a significant impact on electricity consumption.
Based on data of more than 3700 citizens in Germany, this paper empirically examines the relevance of several groups of explanatory factors for electricity consumption. Besides controlling for individual housing and dwelling characteristics as well as socio-demographics, we analyze the effect of environmentally-related values and norms. Since behavioral economics reveals the importance of economic preferences for many individual activities, we additionally consider time and risk preferences, altruism, trust, and reciprocity in our econometric analysis. With respect to the latter factors, only patience has a significantly negative effect on electricity consumption. Instead, our estimation results suggest a high relevance of several individual housing and dwelling characteristics and socio-demographics. The most interesting result is probably that neither environmentally-related values such as ecological policy identification and environmental awareness nor environmentally-related personal and social norms have a significant effect. In contrast to the USA and to the demand for green electricity in Germany, these estimation results suggest that citizens with strong environmentally-related values and norms in Germany do not consider low electricity consumption as an important direction for environmental and climate protection.
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