eprintid: 14492
rev_number: 14
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datestamp: 2017-03-22 07:10:37
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creators_name: Rao, N.D.
creators_name: Ummel, K.
creators_id: 1961
creators_id: 2081
creators_orcid: 0000-0003-1888-5292
title: White goods for white people? Drivers of electric appliance growth in emerging economies
ispublished: pub
divisions: prog_ene
keywords: Household behavior; Residential energy; Appliance diffusion
abstract: Will everybody want and have a refrigerator, television and washing machine as incomes rise? Considerable uncertainty surrounds the likely increase in energy consumption and carbon emissions from rising incomes among the world's poor. We examine drivers of and predict appliance ownership using machine learning and other techniques with household survey data in India, South Africa and Brazil. Televisions and refrigerators are consistently preferred over washing machines. Income is still the predominant driver of aggregate penetration levels, but its influence differs by appliance and by region. The affordability of appliances, wealth, race and religion together, among other household characteristics, help explain the heterogeneity in appliance ownership at lower income levels. Understanding non-income drivers can be helpful to identify barriers to appliance uptake and to better forecast near term residential energy demand growth within countries
date: 2017-05
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier
id_number: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.03.005
creators_browse_id: 243
creators_browse_id: 314
full_text_status: public
publication: Energy Research & Social Science
volume: 27
pagerange: 106-116
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2214-6296
related_url_url: http://www.decentlivingenergy.org/
related_url_type: author
projects: Energy and emissions thresholds for providing decent living standards to all (DecentLivingEnergy, H2020 637462)
coversheets_dirty: FALSE
fp7_project: yes
fp7_project_id: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/637462/EU/Energy and emissions thresholds for providing decent living standards to all/DecentLivingEnergy
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
access_rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
citation:   Rao, N.D. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/243.html> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1888-5292 <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1888-5292> & Ummel, K. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/314.html>  (2017).  White goods for white people? Drivers of electric appliance growth in emerging economies.   Energy Research & Social Science 27 106-116. 10.1016/j.erss.2017.03.005 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.03.005>.       
document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14492/1/Rao_Ummel_2017_EnergyResearchSocalScience.pdf