PREPAID ELECTRICITY PLAN AND ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR

• Published in: Contemporary economic policy Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 125 - 142
• Main Authors: Qiu, Yueming, Xing, Bo, Wang, Yi David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, USA Wiley Periodicals, Inc 01.01.2017; Blackwell Publishers Ltd; Western Economic Association
• Subjects: Bias; Billings; Consumer behavior; Consumer behaviour; Consumer research; Consumption; Electric utilities; Electricity; Energy consumption; Marketing research; Personal income; Phoenix Arizona; Prepaid services; Wealth; United States > US; Phoenix Arizona

By using customer‐level residential billing data from 2008 to 2010 of a major utility company in Phoenix metropolitan area, this study adopts a matching approach and a difference‐in‐differences method to estimate empirically the impact of a prepaid electricity plan on residential electricity consump...