Households' heating investments: The effect of motives andattitudes on choice of equipment

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 4-12

  Lillemo, Shuling Chen ^a   Alfnes, Frode ^a   Halvorsen, Bente ^a,b   Wik, Mette ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Heating choice behavior; Household heating; Mixed logit; Motive; Revealed preference

Indexed keywords

CHOICE BEHAVIORS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES; MIXED LOGIT; MOTIVE; REVEALED PREFERENCE; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR;

ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EQUIPMENT; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; PELLETIZING; STOVES;

HEATING;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EQUIPMENT; HEATING; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

NORWAY;

EID: 84887019604     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.01.027     Document Type: Article

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