Working Papers
WP-048
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Energy Subsidies
Authors: Robert Hahn and Robert D. Metcalfe
Date: January 2021. Revised version published in American Economic Review, Vol. 111, No. 5, May 2021.
WP-047
Energy Efficiency Can Deliver for Climate Policy: Evidence from Machine Learning-Based Targeting
Authors: Peter Christensen, Paul Francisco, Erica Myers, Hansen Shao, and Mateus Souza
Date: February 2021 (Updated: November 2021)
WP-046
Decomposing the Wedge Between Projected and Realized Returns in Energy Efficiency Programs
Authors: Peter Christensen, Paul Francisco, Erica Myers, and Mateus Souza
Date: February 2021
WP-045
Making Energy Costs Salient Can Lead to Low-efficiency Purchases
Authors: Giovanna d'Adda, Yu Gao, and Massimo Tavoni
Date: February 2020
WP-044
Effects of Mandatory Energy Efficiency Disclosure in Housing Markets
Authors: Erica Myers, Steven Puller, and Jeremy West
Date: October 2019
WP-043
Are Consumers Attentive to Local Energy Costs? Evidence from the Appliance Market
Authors: Sébastien Houde and Erica Myers
Date: February 2019
WP-042
The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
Author: Joshua Blonz
Date: December 2018
WP-041
Social Comparison Nudges Without Monetary Incentives: Evidence from Home Energy Reports
Authors: Erica Myers and Mateus Souza
Date: Revised March 2019
WP-040
Attribute Substitution in Household Vehicle Portfolios
Authors: James Archsmith, Kenneth Gillingham, Christopher R. Knittel, and David S. Rapson
Date: September 2018
WP-039
Are Consumers Poorly Informed about Fuel Eceonomy? Evidence from Two Experiments
Authors: Hunt Allcott and Christopher R. Knittel
Date: September 2018. Revised version published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(1), 1-37.
WP-038
Subsidizing Fuel Efficient Cars: Evidence from China's Automobile Industry
Authors: Chia-Wen Chen, Wei-Min Hu, and Christopher R. Knittel
Date: September 2018
WP-037
Bunching with the Stars: How Firms Respond to Environmental Certification
Author: Sébastien Houde
Date: July 2018
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WP-036
The Incidence of Coarse Certification: Evidence from the ENERGY STAR Program
Author: Sébastien Houde
Date: June 2018
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WP-035
The Efficiency Consequences of Heterogeneous Behavioral Responses to Energy Fiscal Policies
Authors: Sébastien Houde and Joseph Aldy
Date: February 2018
Abstract | Policy Brief | Full Paper
WP-034
How Effective is Energy-Efficient Housing? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mexico
Authors: Lucas W. Davis, Sebastian Martinez, and Bibiana Taboada
Date: February 2018
WP-033
Spillovers from Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Water and Energy Use
Author: Katrina Jessoe, Gabriel E. Lade, Frank Loge, and Edward Spang
Date: December 2017
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WP-032
Machine Learning from Schools about Energy Efficiency
Author: Fiona Burlig, Christopher Knittel, David Rapson, Mar Reguant, and Catherine Wolfram
Date: Revised January 2019
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WP-031
Residential Building Codes Do Save Energy: Evidence From Hourly Smart-Meter Data
Author: Kevin Novan, Aaron Smith, and Tianxia Zhou
Date: June 2017
Abstract | Non-Technical Abstract | Full Paper
WP-030
Evidence of a Decline in Electricity Use by U.S. Households
Author: Lucas Davis
Date: May 2017. Revised version published in Economics Bulletin, 2017, 37(2), 1098-1105.
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WP-029
Utilities Included: Split Incentives in Commercial Electricity Contracts
Authors: Katrina Jessoe, Maya Papineau, and David Rapson
Date: Revised May 2019
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WP-028
Measuring the Welfare Effects of Residential Energy Efficiency Programs
Authors: Hunt Allcott and Michael Greenstone
Date: April 2017
Abstract | Non-Technical Abstract | Policy Brief | Full Paper
WP-027
The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains
Authors: Greer K. Gosnell, John A. List, and Robert D. Metcalfe
Date: Revised April 2019. Forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 128(4).
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WP-026
Are Fuel Economy Standards Regressive?
Authors: Lucas W. Davis and Christopher R. Knittel
Date: December 2016. Revised version published in Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019, 6, 37-63.
Abstract | Non-Technical Abstract | Full Paper | Blog
WP-025
Running Randomized Field Experiments for Energy Efficiency Programs: A Practitioner’s Guide
Authors: Raina Gandhi, Christopher R. Knittel, Paula Pedro, and Catherine Wolfram
Date: July 2016. Revised version published in Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 5(2).
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WP-024
Are Home Buyers Inattentive? Evidence From Capitalization of Energy Costs
Authors: Erica Myers
Date: Revised July 2018. Revised version published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(2), 165-188.
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WP-023
Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver at the Right Time?
Authors: Judson Boomhower and Lucas W. Davis
Date: January 2017. Forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Abstract | Non-Technical Abstract | Full Paper | Blog
WP-022
The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons
Authors: Hunt Allcott and Judd B. Kessler
Date: Revised October 2016. Revised version published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, (11)1, 236-276.
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WP-021
Asymmetric Information in Residential Rental Markets: Implications for the Energy Efficiency Gap
Author: Erica Myers
Date: Revised January 2018
WP-020
Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program
Authors: Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone, and Catherine Wolfram
Date: June 2015. Revised version published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018.
Abstract | Policy Brief | Full Paper | Blog
WP-019
Vehicle Miles (Not) Traveled: Why Fuel Economy Requirements Don’t Increase Household Driving
Authors: Jeremy West, Mark Hoekstra, Jonathan Meer and Steven Puller
Date: May 2015. Revised version published in Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 145, 65-81.
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WP-018
Tagging and Targeting of Energy Efficiency Subsidies
Authors: Hunt Allcott, Christopher R. Knittel, and Dmitry Taubinsky
Date: May 2015. Revised version published in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2015, 105(5), 187-191.
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WP-017
The Persistence of Moral Suasion and Economic Incentives: Field Experimental Evidence from Energy Demand
Authors: Koichiro Ito, Takanori Ida, and Makoto Tanaka
Date: April 2015. Revised version published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018, 10 (1), 240-67.
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WP-016
Are the Non-Monetary Costs of Energy Efficiency Investments Large? Understanding Low Take-up of a Free Energy Efficiency Program
Authors: Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone, and Catherine Wolfram
Date: January 2015. Revised version published in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 105(5), 201-04.
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WP-015
Does Better Information Lead to Better Choices? Evidence from Energy-Efficiency Labels
Authors: Lucas W. Davis and Gilbert Metcalf
Date: November 2015. Revised version published in Journal of Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, 3(3), 589-625.
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WP-014
Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments
Authors: Sébastien Houde and Joseph Aldy
Date: October 2014. Revised version published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9(4), 227-255.
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WP-013
The Rebound Effect and Energy Efficiency Policy
Authors: Kenneth Gillingham, David Rapson, and Gernot Wagner
Date: September 2015. Revised version published in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2016, 10(1), 68-88.
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WP-012
The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards
Authors: Koichiro Ito and James M. Sallee
Date: December 2015. Revised version published in Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (2), 319-336s.
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WP-011
Paternalism and Energy Efficiency: An Overview
Author: Hunt Allcott
Date: August 2015. Revised version published in Annual Review of Economics, 2016, 8, 145-176.
WP-010
Asymmetric Incentives in Subsidies: Evidence from a Large-Scale Electricity Rebate Program
Author: Koichiro Ito
Date: December 2014. Revised version published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 7(3), 209-37, 2015.
Abstract | Non-Technical Abstract | Full Paper | Blog
WP-009
Double Moral Hazard and the Energy Efficiency Gap
Authors: Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet and Sébastien Houde
Date: December 2016. Revised version published in Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2018, 5(4), 755-790.
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WP-008
The Role of Sales Agents in Information Disclosure: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(Previously circulated as "Information Disclosure through Agents: Evidence from a Field Experiment")
Authors: Hunt Allcott and Richard Sweeney
Date: March 2015. Revised version published in Management Science, 2017, 63(1), 21-39.
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WP-007
How Consumers Respond to Environmental Certification and the Value of Energy Information
Author: Sébastien Houde
Date: December 2016. Revised version published as "How consumers respond to product certification and the value of energy information" in RAND Journal of Economics, 2018, 49(2), 453-477.
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WP-006
The Lightbulb Paradox: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
Authors: Hunt Allcott and Dmitry Taubinsky
Date: July 2014. Revised version published as "Evaluating Behaviorally-Motivated Policy: Experimental Evidence from the Lightbulb Market" in American Economic Review, 2015, 105(8), 2501-2538.
WP-005
A Microeconomic Framework for Evaluating Energy Efficiency Rebound and Some Implications
Author: Severin Borenstein
Date January 2014. Revised version published in Energy Journal, 2015, 36(1), 1-21.
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WP-004
Cash for Coolers: Evaluating a Large-Scale Appliance Replacement Program in Mexico
Authors: Lucas W. Davis, Alan Fuchs, and Paul Gertler
Date: November 2013. Revised version published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6(4), 207-238.
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WP-003
The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation
Authors: Hunt Allcott and Todd Rogers
Date: July 2013. Revised version published in American Economic Review, 2014, 10, 3003-3037.
WP-002
Gasoline Prices, Fuel Economy, and the Energy Paradox
Authors: Hunt Allcott and Nathan Wozny
Date: November 2012. Revised version published in Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96(10), 779-795.
WP-001
Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?
Authors: Hunt Allcott and Michael Greenstone
Date: July 2012. Revised version published in Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26(1), Winter 2012.