Who rebounds most? Estimating direct and indirect rebound effects for different UK socioeconomic groups

Ecological Economics

Volumn 106, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-32

  Chitnis, Mona ^a   Sorrell, Steve ^b   Druckman, Angela ^a   Firth, Steven K ^c   Jackson, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Household expenditure; Income effects; Re spending; Rebound effect

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKET; ECONOMIC POLICY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; POLLUTION TAX; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84905237433     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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