A large body of literature shows that the provision of social comparisons can cause households to reduce residential energy and water use. In this paper, we carry out a field experiment that contributes to this literature in two important ways. First, we study a social comparison treatment that...

Incomplete information may be one reason why some households do not invest in energy efficiency even though it would benefit them to do so. Energy performance certificates (EPCs) have been promoted to overcome such information shortages. In this paper, we investigate whether EPCs together with...

We employ a unique field experimental setting to study the spillover effects of social comparisons on energy and water use in the residential sector. We find that electricity use-targeted social comparison induces conservation beyond electricity, leading to substantial reductions in energy use...