Energy conservation and health risk reduction: an experimental investigation of punishing vs. rewarding incentives
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Energy savings; Risk preference; Health risk;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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