A ladder within a ladder: Understanding the factors influencing a household's domestic use of electricity in four African countries
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Wealth; Education; Access to infrastructure; Energy use; Ladder; Africa;All these keywords.
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- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
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