Fuel choices in urban Indian households

Farsi, M., Filippini, M., & Pachauri, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-3178 (2007). Fuel choices in urban Indian households. Environment and Development Economics 12 (6) 757-774. 10.1017/S1355770X07003932.

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Abstract

This paper applies an ordered discrete choice framework to model fuel choices and patterns of cooking fuel use in urban Indian households. The choices considered are for three main cooking fuels: firewood, kerosene, and LPG (liquid petroleum gas). The models, estimated using a large microeconomic dataset, show a reasonably good performance in the prediction of households primary and secondary fuel choices. This suggests that ordered models can be used to analyze multiple fuel use patterns in the Indian context. The results show that lack of sufficient income is one of the main factors that retard households from using cleaner fuels, which usually also require the purchase of relatively expensive equipments. The results also indicate that households are sensitive to LPG prices. In addition to income and price, several socio-demographic factors such as education and sex of the head of the household are also found to be important in determining household fuel choice.

Item Type:	Article
Research Programs:	Population and Climate Change (PCC)
Bibliographic Reference:	Environment and Development Economics; 12(6):757-774 (December 2007) (Published online 23 November 2007)
Depositing User:	IIASA Import
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2016 08:39
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 17:19
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/8132

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