Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/326984 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
I4R Discussion Paper Series No. 265
Publisher: 
Institute for Replication (I4R), s.l.
Abstract: 
We create a large meta-dataset of price elasticities of energy demand for heating and cooling in buildings, comprising close to 5000 price elasticity estimates including study and observation characteristics from more than 400 primary studies. We find robust and strong signs of p-hacking and publication bias with insignificant or positive elasticities being underrepresented. Correcting for this bias, the price elasticities range from -0.05 to -0.2 for the short run and from -0.1 to -0.3 for the long run. This holds for all relevant fossil fuels and electricity, poor and rich countries, residential and business usage, and aggregate and survey data.
Subjects: 
Meta-analysis
Price elasticity
Energy demand
Publication Bias
JEL: 
C83
Q41
Q48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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