Consumers' Response to State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Programs
评估2009年《复苏法案》的州级节能家电补贴计划，发现70%的消费者属于边际内消费者，另有15%-20%仅推迟购买，且消费者倾向于升级到质量更高但能效更低的型号，长期节能效果有限。
Through an evaluation of the 2009 Recovery Act's State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program, this paper examines consumers' response to energy efficiency rebates. The analysis shows that 70 percent of consumers claiming a rebate were inframarginal and an additional 15 percent–20 percent of consumers simply delayed their purchases by a few weeks. Consumers responded to rebates by upgrading to higher quality, but less energy-efficient models. Overall the impact of the program on long-term energy demand is likely to be small. Measures of government expenditure per unit of energy saved are an order of magnitude higher than estimates for other energy efficiency programs.