A life-cycle theory analysis of French household electricity demand

Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille

Type de document :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1007/s00191-021-00730-x

URL permanente :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/56421

Titre :

A life-cycle theory analysis of French household electricity demand

Auteur(s) :

Belaïd, Fateh [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Rault, Christophe [Auteur]
Massié, Camille [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]

Titre de la revue :

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Pagination :

14010

Éditeur :

Springer Verlag (Germany)

Date de publication :

2021

ISSN :

0936-9937

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Gestion et management

Résumé en anglais : [en]

This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life cycle and its response to income variations to help strengthen the energy policy-making process. Our ...
Lire la suite >This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life cycle and its response to income variations to help strengthen the energy policy-making process. Our empirical methodology is based on three rich independent microdata surveys (the National Housing Surveys), which are representative of the French housing sector. The resulted sample covers the 2006-2016 period. Using within estimations, this paper finds striking evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of generations. In light of other works, our estimate stands in the lower range. The empirical results also show that residential electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably, it appears that households at the mid-point of their life cycle are relatively the largest consumers of electricity. This outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should consider this differentiation in consumption according to the position of households over the life cycle, and therefore target as priority households at the highest level of consumption.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

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Source :

Harvested from HAL

Date de dépôt :

2021-11-13T01:38:11Z

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