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DO‐IT‐YOURSELF AND ENERGY CONSERVATION
Author(s) -
MAYER PETER C.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1996.tb00608.x
Subject(s) - energy conservation , investment (military) , energy (signal processing) , economics , business , relation (database) , microeconomics , environmental economics , commerce , computer science , engineering , mathematics , statistics , database , politics , political science , law , electrical engineering
Buyer‐installation of household equipment appears to reduce the inclination to purchase energy‐saving equipment. The finding demonstrates the need for special promotional effort to sell energy‐saving equipment to the do‐it‐yourself market. The finding may provide a new explanation for the inverse relation between family income and purchase of energy‐saving investment.