Durable goods and long-run electricity demand: : Evidence from air conditioner purchase behavior

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Air conditioning and global inequality (2021, unknown): “…adoption have tended to focus on the United States and other high-income countries (Sailor and Pavlova, 2003; Biddle, 2008; Mansur et al., 2008; Rapson, 2014), our inclusion of a large sample of households from low-and middle-income countries differentiates our study and provides much more…”
Air conditioning and electricity expenditure: The role of climate in temperate countries (2020, background): “Our results, referring to industrialized countries, point to a relatively larger role of climate, as also suggested by US studies (Biddle, 2008; Rapson, 2014).”
The Demand for Energy-Using Assets among the World's Rising Middle Classes (2016, background): “In recent work, Rapson (2014) and Schiraldi (2011) model dynamic considerations focusing on, respectively, consumer expectations about future energy (i.e., usage) prices and heterogeneous consumer transaction costs.”