Most agree that climate change is a serious threat. It has increasingly been recognized by
scientists and policymakers as a consumer behavior issue: What, how, and how much …

Almost everyone struggles to act in their individual and collective best interests, particularly
when doing so requires forgoing a more immediately enjoyable alternative. Other than …

OECD countries are at the forefront of sustainable development and working in several
domains, including energy efficiency, environmental taxes, and the development of green …

Governments are increasingly adopting behavioral science techniques for changing
individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of “nudge” interventions that …

G7-countries have pivotal collaborations in several domains, including energy efficiency to
realize energy security and subside greenhouse gas emissions. In this respect, research on …

We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison-
based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households …

Many analysts of the energy industry have long believed that energy efficiency offers an
enormous “win-win” opportunity: through aggressive energy conservation policies, we can …

Despite several decades of government policies to promote energy efficiency, estimates of
the costs and benefits of such policies remain controversial. At the heart of the controversy is …

This paper evaluates a series of programs run by a company called OPOWER to send Home
Energy Report letters to residential utility customers comparing their electricity use to that of …

Abstract “Site selection bias” can occur when the probability that a program is adopted or
evaluated is correlated with its impacts. I test for site selection bias in the context of the …