Heterogeneity in the Rebound Effect: Evidence from Efficient Lighting Subsidies

Ensieh Shojaeddini ()
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Ensieh Shojaeddini: National Center for Environmental Economics, US EPA
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Ben Gilbert

No 2020-07, Working Papers from Colorado School of Mines, Division of Economics and Business

Abstract: This paper quantifies heterogeneity in rebound effects from policy-induced energy efficiency improvements by income and home size. We do so in a relatively understudied context: residential lighting. This context allows us to separately estimate effects for energy services (lighting hours) and electricity consumption. We identify the effect of household-level subsidy uptake using instrumental variables for program awareness and coarsened exact matching. We find that rebound effects are larger for households with lower incomes and smaller homes. We also show that the rebound effect is not large enough to ``backfire'' and all income and size subsamples exhibit net energy savings.

Keywords: rebound effect; heterogeneity; energy efficiency policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 H31 L68 Q14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2020-11
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Journal Article: Heterogeneity in the Rebound Effect: Evidence from Efficient Lighting Subsidies (2023)
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