Adoption and disadoption of electric cookstoves in urban Ethiopia: Evidence from panel data

Alem, Yonas; Hassen, Sied; Köhlin, Gunnar

doi:10.1016/j.reseneeco.2014.06.004

Cited by 38 publications

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“…Higher-income households adopt sustainable cooking systems more frequently than do lower-income households. A higher level of income influences the alternative fuels used and offers more possibilities for families to adopt improved cooking systems [30,33,38,40,41]. For example, Lee (2013) found a direct relationship between income and non-solid fuel (e.g., electricity) consumption [28].…”

Section: Economic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drivers and Barriers to Clean Cooking: A Systematic Literature Review from a Consumer Behavior Perspective

2018

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A lack of access to clean energy and use of traditional cooking systems have severe negative effects on health, especially among women and children, and on the environment. Despite increasing attention toward this topic, few studies have explored the factors influencing consumers’ adoption of improved cooking stoves (ICS). This systematic literature review (n = 81) aims to identify the main drivers and barriers to clean cooking from a consumer perspective. In addition, it aims to define how consumers perceive ICS with respect to traditional stoves. Thematic analysis revealed seven factors that may act as drivers or barriers to ICS adoption: economic factors; socio-demographics; fuel availability; attitude toward technology; awareness of the risks of traditional cookstoves and the benefits of ICS; location; and social and cultural influences. Perceptions focused on four topics: convenience and uses, aesthetics, health-related impacts, and environmental impacts. This review contributes to understanding of consumer behavior with regards to ICS. The findings suggest that availability and affordability of technology are not enough to enhance ICS adoption. Rather, policy makers and managers should approach customers with a less technical and a more personalized approach that takes due consideration of a local context and its social and cultural dynamics.

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Section: Economic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drivers and Barriers to Clean Cooking: A Systematic Literature Review from a Consumer Behavior Perspective

2018

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“…It is partly due to those non‐internalized benefits that uptake of ICS is mostly low (Lewis and Pattanayak 2012; Putti et al 2015). Other reasons stretch from cash and credit constraints to high discount rates or intra‐household bargaining patterns (see, e.g., Bensch, Grimm, and Peters 2015; Alem, Hassen, and Köhlin 2018; Levine et al 2018).…”

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One‐Off Subsidies and Long‐Run Adoption—Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal

Bensch¹,

Peters²

2019

American J Agri Economics

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Free technology distribution can be an effective development policy instrument if market-driven adoption is socially inefficient and hampered by affordability constraints. Yet, policy makers often oppose free distribution, arguing that reference dependence lowers the willingness to pay (WTP) and thus hinders market potentials in the long run. For improved cookstoves, this paper studies the WTP six years after a randomized one-time free distribution in 2009. We demonstrate that the cookstoves were intensely used by the treatment group households in the years after randomization until they reached their designated lifetime. Using a real-purchase offer, we find that both treatment and control households reveal a remarkably high WTP in 2015. The estimated confidence interval suggests that we can exclude a substantial negative effect on the treatment group. The policy implication is that one-time free distribution does not necessarily undermine future market establishment, and thus can be an effective policy instrument if rapid dissemination is the objective.

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“…Household expenditure and water-treatment behaviors have been found to be correlated with household-level decisions to adopt ICS (e.g. Alem et al 2014, Silk et al 2012. Finally, there are also differences across our intervention arms in ownership of LPG and electric stoves, and in awareness of clean stoves and fuels, perhaps due to prior clean-cooking interventions initiated by our field partner in the region.…”

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Can economic incentives enhance adoption and use of a household energy technology? Evidence from a pilot study in Cambodia

Usmani

Steele

Jeuland

2017

Environ. Res. Lett.

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While much work has examined approaches to increase uptake of a variety of household environmental, health, and energy technologies, researchers and policymakers alike have struggled to ensure long-term use. Drawing on a pilot-scale experiment conducted in rural Cambodia, this study evaluates whether economic incentives enhance continued use of-and fuel savings fromimproved cookstoves (ICS). Capital-cost subsidies that have been traditionally employed to enhance ICS adoption were augmented with rebates linked to stated and objectively measured use in order to investigate impacts on both initial and sustained adoption in the treatment group. Results show that households do respond to these rebates by adopting the intervention ICS at significantly higher rates, and by using it more frequently and for longer periods. Consistent with these stove-use patterns, solid-fuel use and time spent collecting or preparing fuels also decline. However, this effect appears to diminish over time. Thus, while economic inducements may significantly increase adoption and use of new environmental health technologies, corresponding reductions in environmental or livelihood burdens are not guaranteed. Additional research on the design and implementation of incentive-based interventions targeting households directly-such as carbon financing or other forms of results-based financing (RBF) for improved cookstovestherefore seems warranted prior to wider implementation of such solutions.

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Adoption and disadoption of electric cookstoves in urban Ethiopia: Evidence from panel data

Cited by 38 publications

References 19 publications

Drivers and Barriers to Clean Cooking: A Systematic Literature Review from a Consumer Behavior Perspective

Drivers and Barriers to Clean Cooking: A Systematic Literature Review from a Consumer Behavior Perspective

One‐Off Subsidies and Long‐Run Adoption—Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal

Can economic incentives enhance adoption and use of a household energy technology? Evidence from a pilot study in Cambodia

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