Posted: March 2025
Contact: Sarah Khan, Diana Danilenko, Jan Minx
A variety of behavioral, information and monetary interventions have been proposed to
reduce energy consumption in residential buildings. A recent systematic review and
meta-analysis found that monetary interventions perform better than behavioral and
information interventions, but that combinations of intervention can further improve or reduce
performance. However, research could not clarify so far why this is the case and what
determines these changes in performance. Purely quantitative methods provide little scope
to advance this understanding. Instead, this project will undertake a realist synthesis that
combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to understand why certain combinations of
interventions do or do not work, under what conditions and why. This will improve our
understanding of effective interventions to energy savings
Required skills: Policy evaluation; Econometrics/statistics
