Nonprice incentives and energy conservation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2015, Pages E510-E515

  Asensio, Omar I ^a   Delmas, Magali A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Energy conservation; Environmental behavior; Health information disclosure; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; COST CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MONEY; NONPRICE INCENTIVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); UTILITY WORKS, APPLIANCES AND SERVICES; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMICS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MOTIVATION; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES;

CITIES; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MOTIVATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922657484     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1401880112     Document Type: Article

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