Limited Attention and the Residential Energy Efficiency Gap
利用1700名房主的调查数据，构建注意力不足指数，发现注意力不足等行为因素是影响家庭选择能源审计的关键因素，有助于解释能效差距。
Inattention may be an important contributor to the energy efficiency gap and may be particularly acute in residential buildings where many different features will determine a home's energy use. Energy audits can provide information on how to reduce energy loss in a home, but the use of audits is rare. We use data from a national survey of 1700 homeowners to study the factors affecting a home owner's choice to have an audit. We create an index of energy inattention for our survey respondents. This index and two additional behavioral factors prove to be important determinants of the audit choice.