%T Associations between household characteristics and subsidy applications for energy efficient retrofits in residential real estate
%D 2020
%X Recently the Dutch government issued a second subsidy round to create a financial incentive for owner-occupiers to adopt energy efficient retrofits. This second round is a continuation of the by the government as successful labeled first round. Evidence in academic literature shows that the ability to adopt energy efficient retrofits and successfully apply for subsidies varies between different types of households. These types of households are distinguished by dwelling-, socio-economic, and socio-demographic household characteristics. The aim of this study is to explore associations between household characteristics of owner-occupiers and their perceptions regarding the possibilities to apply for subsidies for energy efficient retrofits in the Netherlands. This study focuses on assessing the perceptions of owner-occupiers who in their perception could not or did not know whether they could apply for subsidies. By means of a multinomial logistic regression model the associations between the household characteristics dwelling type, construction period, net income, education, and age and the perceived possibility to apply for subsidies are explored. The results show significant positive associations between certain dwelling types, recent dwelling construction periods, and older age groups and owner-occupiers that in their perception could not or did not know whether they could apply for subsidies. This study extents the current limited literature on household heterogeneity on subjects regarding energy efficient retrofit and subsidies in real estate research. In practice the results underline the importance for more attention to deliberate targeting of different types of owner-occupiers in real estate policy development to accelerate the energy transition.
%L theses_frw3323
%A Lennard Rauh