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Endogenous energy efficiency and residential energy consumption in the presence of health and education choices

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  • Xavier Pautrel

    (GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement)

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We build an overlapping-generation model with heterogenous agents, in which education, health and energy efficiency choices are endogenous. It incorporates the empirical evidence that education is positively influenced by health, and that low energy efficiency reduces health status.Firstly, this model replicates the well-documented positive relationship between energy efficiency and income level. Secondly, it shows that a greater level of energy efficiency chosen by individuals reduces wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. Thirdly, it replicates the positive link between the aggregate energy efficiency index (defined as the weighted sum of the individual energy efficiencies chosen) and aggregate energy consumption, as highlighted in the literature, offering a possible explanation of the rebound effect based on health and educational dimensions.

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  • Xavier Pautrel, 2025. "Endogenous energy efficiency and residential energy consumption in the presence of health and education choices," Working Papers hal-05224881, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-05224881
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    JEL classification:

    • D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy
    • D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy

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