The energy ladder: Theoretical myth or empirical truth? Results from a meta-analysis

By B. Kroon, Roy Brouwer, P. V. Beukering. 2013

617 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Energy Engineering and Power Technology

1. Reinhard Madlener
2. Hui-Jie Yan
3. Christophe Muller
4. C. Michelsen

In Pollution

1. A. Mekonnen
2. A. Beyene
3. G. Kohlin
4. Dayong Zhang
5. Yonas Alem
6. Reinhard Madlener
7. Hui-Jie Yan
8. Christophe Muller

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Reinhard Madlener
2. C. Michelsen
3. D. Broadstock
4. Dayong Zhang
5. A. Mekonnen
6. A. Beyene
7. G. Kohlin
8. Jiajia Li

Citations in the corpus

• Fuel Stacking in India: Changes in the Cooking and Lighting Mix, 1987-2010 (2014, neutral): “[13] and [24], a household may continue to use traditional fuels when the delivery of non-solid fuels is too unreliable or unpredictable, especially in the case of electricity [6].”
• Efficiency Snakes and Energy Ladders: A (meta-)frontier demand analysis of electricity consumption efficiency in Chinese households (2016, background): “…have been presented regarding a concept referred to as the ‘household energy ladder’ (see for example Hosier and Dowd (1987) or more recently van der Kroon et al. (2013)), which suggests wealthier households have greater efficiency potential via their ability to purchase newer and more…”
• LPG fuel subsidies in Latin America and the use of solid fuels to cook (2017, background): “The subsidy was withdrawn in the 2000s (Laan et al., 2010).”
• Switching from fossil fuel to renewables in residential heating systems: An empirical study of homeowners' decisions in Germany (2014, methodology): “Research on energy technologies and fuels so far has focused to a large extent on the replacement behavior for stoves and fuels for cooking in developing countries by applying the energy ladder model (Van der Kroon et al., 2013).”
• Household Fuel Use in Developing Countries: Review of Theory and Evidence (2018, background): “Our survey complements and extends the contributions of Barnes and Floor (1996), Kowsari and Zerriffi (2011), Lewis and Pattanayak (2012), van der Kroon et al. (2013) and Malla and Timilsina (2014) in several respects.”
• Modeling household cooking fuel choice: A panel multinomial logit approach (2015, background): “As noted by van der Kroon et al. (2013), household fuel choice in the past has often been analyzed and understood through the lens of the energy ladder model.”