Axiom of the relative income hypothesis and household energy choice and consumption in developing areas: Empirical evidence using Verme model

Danlami, Abubakar Hamid; Applanaidu, Shri Dewi; Islam, Rabiul

doi:10.1016/j.kjss.2018.06.010

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“…This is in line with a priori expectations that the households living in urban areas adopt cleaner energy than the households living in the rural areas mainly due to economic, social, and educational factors. The exact fact is that cleaner sources of energy are more available in urban than in rural areas, which is in line with the findings of Danlami et al (2018c).…”

Section: Determinants Of Household Energy Switchingsupporting

confidence: 84%

Sustaining a Cleaner Environment by Curbing Down Biomass Energy Consumption

Danlami

Applanaidu

2021

African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

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Environmental degradation, soil erosion, and desertification are some of the consequences of high rate of traditional biomass fuel use by households in developing countries. The critical issues to raise here are how can these households be encouraged to change their energy consumption behavior? What are the factors that cause the rampant use of biomass fuel in developing countries? How and to what extent can these factors be manipulated so that households in developing countries are encouraged to adopt clean energy fuel an alternative to the most widely used biomass fuel? Therefore, this chapter tries to find answer to the above questions raised, by carrying out an in depth analysis of households’ use of biomass fuel in developing countries using Bauchi State, Nigeria, as the case study. Cluster area sampling technique was utilized to generate the various responses, where a total number of 539 respondents were analyzed. The study estimated ordered logit model to analyze the factors that influence the movement of households along the energy ladder from nonclean energy to the cleaner energy. Furthermore, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model was estimated to analyze the impacts of socio-economic, residential, and environmental factors on biomass energy consumption. It was found that age of the household head and his level of education, income, living in urban areas, home ownership, and hours of electricity supply have positive and significant impact on household energy switching from traditional biomass energy use to the cleaner energy. Therefore, policies that will enhance household income and the increase in the availability of cheap cleaner energy will encourage households switching to cleaner energy sources thereby reducing the level of environmental pollution in the study area.

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Section: Determinants Of Household Energy Switchingsupporting

confidence: 84%

Sustaining a Cleaner Environment by Curbing Down Biomass Energy Consumption

Danlami

Applanaidu

2021

African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

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“…In more detail, the energy decision-making of high-income families is less affected by price-related factors and their energy-saving behaviors come from the affirmation of the value of a low-carbon lifestyle and environmental protection to some extent. In other words, rich residents' energy-saving behavior is more stable, a similar result to [53,56]. Comparing the results of these two groups, the most obvious divergence is the purchase-based intention that low-to-middle income families show a higher and more positive effect on energy consumption.…”

Section: Subgroup-based Analysismentioning

confidence: 80%

Why Low-Carbon Publicity Effect Limits? The Role of Heterogeneous Intention in Reducing Household Energy Consumption

Zhang

2021

Energies

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Low-carbon knowledge is seen as having a key role in interfering with household energy consumption behaviors by wide consensus from political and academic areas. Whether low-carbon publicity will help to reduce household energy consumption is still in dispute. By constructing an integrated knowledge-intention-behavior model and using 1335 detailed survey questionnaires of household energy behavior in Henan Province, the central area in China, this paper finds that in the developing area low-carbon knowledge or publicity cannot positively impact household energy-saving behavior even if mediated by energy awareness and energy-saving attitudes. Low-carbon knowledge does improve energy-saving attitude and attitude does not decrease household energy consumption directly. Familiarity with particular energy-saving knowledge would decrease the household energy consumption but not significantly in the statistics. Path analysis unfolds the reason that the heterogeneous effects of purchase-based intention and habitual intention explain energy consumption behavior. Subgroup analysis supports those economic factors of income and energy prices play key roles in explaining such household energy consumption behavior in the rapid urbanization area. This paper gives new evidence on the residential energy-saving behavior intervention among developing areas.

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“…However, because of the problem of non-response bias (Danlami, 2017;Danlami et al, 2018) a total of 400 questionnaires were distributed…”

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Gender accessibility to credit among entrepreneurs

Bashir

Danlami

2022

Eur J Gov Econ

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This study was carried out to empirically assess women entrepreneurs’ access to credit in Kano metropolis. The study was aimed at analyzing the maximum willingness to accept loans by women entrepreneurs and exploring the major problems hindering women entrepreneurs from fundraising for businesses in Kano Metropolis. The study employed a multi-stage random sampling to select a total of three hundred and seventy-six (376) women entrepreneurs as the sample of the study. The analysis of the data was carried out using frequency count and simple percentages to analyze the demographic characteristics of the respondents. Furthermore, the inferential statistics were done using logit models to capture the specific objectives of the study. The findings of the study revealed that high interest and collateral requirement prevent women entrepreneurs from accessing a loan from financial institutions, while religious affiliation is a major factor affecting women entrepreneurs' access to credit facilities. Based on the findings of the study, the study recommends that financial institutions should introduce and operate an Islamic finance system to encourage women entrepreneurs to go for a loan as the interest rate is one of the most important constraints to women entrepreneurs seeking financial credits. Additionally, collateral demand attached to a loan for women should be removed to encourage women entrepreneurs to raise capital.

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Axiom of the relative income hypothesis and household energy choice and consumption in developing areas: Empirical evidence using Verme model

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Sustaining a Cleaner Environment by Curbing Down Biomass Energy Consumption

Sustaining a Cleaner Environment by Curbing Down Biomass Energy Consumption

Why Low-Carbon Publicity Effect Limits? The Role of Heterogeneous Intention in Reducing Household Energy Consumption

Gender accessibility to credit among entrepreneurs

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