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Previous findings showed that monetary incentives were not necessarily motivators for reducing energy consumption because of the low costs.
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- Authors
- Delmas, M. A., Fischlein, M., & Asensio, O. I.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Delmas, Magali A.
- Venue
- Energy Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-10
- Volume
- 61
- Pages
- 729-739
- ISSN
- 0301-4215 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2069136131
- Cited by
- 672
- References
- 80
- Citations by year
- 2026: 37 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 43 · 2023: 68 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 79 · 2020: 57 · 2019: 74 · 2018: 57 · 2017: 61 · 2016: 37 · 2015: 32 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 7
- FWCI
- 8.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.escholarship.org
- Locations
- Energy Policy (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- California Air Resources Board # 10-332 and the National Science Foundation #0903720
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Keywords
- energy-saving behavior, information-based interventions, electricity consumption, energy feedback, financial incentives, environmental impact information, behavior change
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