Fuel choices in urban Indian households
- Farsi, Mehdi Istituto microeconomia e economia pubblica (MecoP), Facoltà di scienze economiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
- Filippini, Massimo Istituto microeconomia e economia pubblica (MecoP), Facoltà di scienze economiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
- Pachauri, Shonali International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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2006
Published in:
- Environment and Development Economics. - 2007, vol. 12, no. 6, p. 757-774
English
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... Show more…
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Economics
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- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 9049
- DOI 10.1017/S1355770X07003932
- Persistent URL
- https://susi.usi.ch/usi/documents/318149