Do improved biomass cookstoves reduce fuelwood consumption and carbon emissions ? evidence from rural Ethiopia using a randomized treatment trial with electronic monitoring
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Oil Refining&Gas Industry; Urban Environment; Energy Production and Transportation; Energy Conservation&Efficiency; Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2015-06-27 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2015-06-27 (Development)
- NEP-ENE-2015-06-27 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2015-06-27 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2015-06-27 (Experimental Economics)
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