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Elasticities of electricity demand in urban Indian households

Filippini, Massimo ; Pachauri, Shonali

In: Energy Policy, 2004, vol. 32, no. 3, p. 429-436

In the past, several electricity demand studies have been published for India based on aggregate macro data at the country or sub-national/state level. Since the underlying theory of consumer demand is based on the behaviour of individual agents, the use of micro data, which reflects individual and household behaviour, more closely, can shed greater light on the nature of consumer responses. In...

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Fuel choices in urban Indian households

Farsi, Mehdi ; Filippini, Massimo ; Pachauri, Shonali

In: Environment and Development Economics, 2007, vol. 12, no. 6, p. 757-774

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...