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Evaluating Information Programs when Outcomes are Discrete: Energy Audit Programs and Household Energy Retrofit Activity

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  • Trudy Ann Cameron & Matthew Wright, 1987. "Evaluating Information Programs when Outcomes are Discrete: Energy Audit Programs and Household Energy Retrofit Activity," UCLA Economics Working Papers 451, UCLA Department of Economics.
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