Policy Insights in Environment, Energy, and Climate Change
J-PAL’s Environment, Energy, and Climate Change Sector focuses on energy access, pollution reduction, and climate change. Our policy insight below summarizes emerging lessons from randomized evaluations on the impact of social comparisons on home energy and water consumption.
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Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago) and Kelsey Jack (University of California, Berkeley), Environment, Energy, and Climate Change Co-Chairs
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Building farmers' resilience to climate change
Last updated: septembre 2024
In the face of weather shocks, improved agricultural technologies and techniques, financial services, and social assistance programs can improve the resilience of small-scale farmers. These tools can help farmers prevent crop losses, avoid consumption cuts or sales of productive assets, or even...
Biomass cookstoves to reduce indoor air pollution and fuel use
Last updated: octobre 2020
Despite their positive results in the lab, biomass cookstoves designed to reduce smoke exposure and/or increase fuel efficiency did not substantially improve health in several randomized evaluations in the real world. Many people did not want to buy or maintain them, did not use them enough, and...
Encouraging residential energy efficiency
Last updated: novembre 2019
Programs that encouraged investments in residential energy efficiency had limited returns in several impact evaluations in real-world settings. Relatively small impacts on energy savings coupled with low take-up meant that encouraging these investments through information campaigns and subsidies was...
Campagnes d’information et de comparaisons sociales pour réduire la consommation d’énergie et d’eau
Last updated: avril 2018
Dans de nombreux contextes, des interventions consistant à informer les individus de leur consommation d’énergie ou d’eau par rapport à celle de leurs voisins et à leur donner des conseils pour faire des économies d’eau ou d’énergie ont systématiquement permis de réduire modérément la consommation.
