Urban vs Rural Insulation Concerns
The energy-efficient construction of urban apartment buildings and condo towers helps them use less heating and cooling. The same can’t be said for large country houses that often leak heat into the outdoors. As a result, urban families spend $30 billion more per year than their country cousins do, even though individual city households use much less energy as a whole.
Whether or not to invest in exterior insulation—which can reduce heating costs, attic insulation pollution and time spent monitoring coal-burning stoves—is a homeowner decision. To help ascertain what factors influence these decisions, we used survey data collected from a region in Poland that has a lagging economy. We estimate a probit decision equation and calculate how the probability of investing in exterior insulation changes depending on various household characteristics and opinions about issues related to energy cost, renewable energy and energy-saving behavior.
Attics in Tornado Zones: Special Insulation and Safety Considerations
We found that a household’s income was the most important factor affecting their probability of making the investment. Households with lower incomes were more likely to invest in insulation, but only if their income was enough to cover the costs and they had no other pressing financial needs. Favoring renewable energy sources increased the likelihood of choosing to invest in insulation, and a household’s recent purchase of energy-efficient appliances increased the likelihood as well. These results facilitate targeting of rural households and increasing their participation in recently introduced programs that partially subsidize the investment in thermal insulation of family dwellings.
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