Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1836:
Household Formation and Residential Energy Demand: Evidence from Japan
Carsten Schröder, Katrin Rehdanz, Daiju Narita and Toshihiro Okubo
Abstract: We use a large household panel for Japan (Keio Household
Panel Survey) to estimate household-size economies in energy consumption.
The household-size economies we obtain are significant and sizable: the
per-capita energy-related spending of a two-adult household is only about
two-thirds of the expenditure of a one-adult household. We use the
estimates of household-size economies to explore how the demographic trend
toward smaller-sized household units changes energy demand in the Japanese
household sector. Between 2005 and 2010, for example, average household
size in Japan decreased by about five percent. The resulting economy-wide
loss in household-size economies increased energy demand in the household
sector by about four percent
Keywords: energy consumption, household-size economies, demographic change, household formation; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: Q41; (follow links to similar papers)
34 pages, April 2013
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