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Does gender influence energy efficient decisions in low-income households in GMS countries? |
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| Title | Does gender influence energy efficient decisions in low-income households in GMS countries? |
| Creator | 1. Gabrial An 2. arajah 3. Julia Tomei |
| Publisher | Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment |
| Publication Year | 2557 |
| Keyword | Energy efficiency, Modern energy consumers, GMS, Gender |
| Abstract | This paper studies influence of gender in energy efficient decisions in low-income households through a household questionnaire survey analysis. The study focuses on a particular consumer group, Modern Energy CONsumers (MECON), defined as those who has access to electricity but still poor with an income range of 2-5$/person/day in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries, namely Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. The diversity of social structures, culture and policy regimes across GMS countries may have some gender influence in household energy decisions. Understanding influence of gender in household's energy decision will help designing strategies, targeting a particular gender, to increase uptake of energy efficient appliances in low-income households. The analysis show that in three of the four countries analyzed in this paper, those households where man takes energy decision have relatively high share of CFL lamps than that of the households where woman takes energy decisions. Analysis further shows that it was mostly men who has seen an energy label before. In contrast, analysis shows that energy labels influence mostly women in their energy decisions than that of men. |
| ISBN | 978-616-92228-1-1 |
