Price reform and household demand for electricity

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 242-252

  Carter, Adrian ^a   Craigwell, Roland ^b   Moore, Winston ^b  

^a Marketing and Communications Department   (Barbados)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Developing country; Electricity demand; Heckman estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857194933     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2011.08.006     Document Type: Article

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