Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program

By M. Fowlie, Michael Greenstone, Catherine D. Wolfram. 2018

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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How Much Energy Do Building Energy Codes Save? Evidence from California Houses (2016, unknown): “Though that is impractical, Fowlie et al. (2015) try the next-best strategy.”
The Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-Benefits of Energy-Saving Technology (2019, unknown): “…in high temperature ranges and small efficiency increases elsewhere.3 While engineering estimates of the heat dissipation of LED (versus those of CFL) bulbs exist, those estimates are not always reflective of economic returns, as Fowlie et al. (2013) and Burlig et al. (2017) showed recently.”
The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains (2019, background): “54Our theory and interventions are rooted in Holmström’s (1979) “Informativeness Principle”, which states that any accessible information about an agent’s effort should be used in the design and enforcement of optimal contracts. Our interventions are not aimed at the efficient allocation of effort a”
Are the Non-Monetary Costs of Energy Efficiency Investments Large? Understanding Low Take-Up of a Free Energy Efficiency Program (2015, background): “Households in the treatment group had to actively decide to participate, engage with our staff, meet with contractors, endure the hassle of having a construction team working in their home, etc.”
Assessing the Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Measures in the Residential Sector Gas Consumption Through Dynamic Treatment Effects: Evidence from England and Wales (2022, methodology): “In a US context, Fowlie et al. (2018) evaluated with a randomized experiment and quasi-experimental techniques the U.S. ’ Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) using a sample of 30,000 low-income households from Michigan.”