Testing the effect of defaults on the thermostat settings of OECD employees

Energy Economics

Volumn 39, Issue , 2013, Pages 128-134

  Brown, Zachary ^a   Johnstone, Nick ^a   Haščič, Ivan ^a   Vong, Laura ^a   Barascud, Francis ^a  

^a OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Energy efficiency; Field experiments

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; CENSORED REGRESSION; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES; DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES MODELS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; OCCUPANT BEHAVIOR; POLICY IMPLICATIONS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

THERMOSTATS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; FIELDWORK; OECD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84878944233     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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