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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113251
	Pre-paid meters and household electricity use behaviors: Evidence from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
	Beyene, Abebe D.; Jeuland, Marc; Sebsibie, Samuel; Hassen, Sied; Mekonnen, Alemu; Meles, Tensay H.; Pattanayak, Subhrendu K.; Klug, Thomas
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0301-4215
EISSN	1873-6777
卷号	170 页码:18
英文摘要	In low-income countries such as Ethiopia, pre-paid metering is often argued to alleviate several challenges with traditional electricity billing systems, including high non-payment rate, pilferage and fraud, administrative and enforcement costs for utilities, and inflexibility and incongruence of bills with poorer consumers' irregular income. Despite increasing adoption of this technology, few studies examine its causal impacts on household behaviour. This paper examines the impacts of pre-paid metering on electricity consumption, ownership of appliances, level of satisfaction, and cooking behaviour in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. We employ propensity score matching and instrumental variable techniques to control for the non-random selection into prepaid metering. Results indicate that pre-paid customers have significantly lower electricity consumption compared to those with traditional meters, and express greater satisfaction with utility service. This technology also has a positive, but modest and statistically insignificant impact on total appliance ownership, and a positive and significant impact on ownership of energy-efficient lights. Impacts are heterogeneous across customers, however: those who are more educated, who have higher income, and who do not share meters tend to reduce electricity use more. The results suggest that pre-paid meters have had positive impacts on households and the utility in Addis Ababa.
英文关键词	Electricity utility; Energy access; Propensity score matching; Instrumental variables; Satisfaction
学科领域	Economics; Energy & Fuels; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:000892114600011
来源期刊	ENERGY POLICY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/272322
作者单位	Duke University; Addis Ababa University; University College Dublin; University College Dublin; RWI - Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Beyene, Abebe D.,Jeuland, Marc,Sebsibie, Samuel,et al. Pre-paid meters and household electricity use behaviors: Evidence from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia[J],2022,170:18.
APA	Beyene, Abebe D..,Jeuland, Marc.,Sebsibie, Samuel.,Hassen, Sied.,Mekonnen, Alemu.,...&Klug, Thomas.(2022).Pre-paid meters and household electricity use behaviors: Evidence from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.ENERGY POLICY,170,18.
MLA	Beyene, Abebe D.,et al."Pre-paid meters and household electricity use behaviors: Evidence from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia".ENERGY POLICY 170(2022):18.