TY - JOUR
T1 - Seemingly Unrelated Interventions
T2 - Environmental Management Systems in the Workplace and Energy Saving Practices at Home
AU - Arimura, Toshi H.
AU - Iwata, Kazuyuki
AU - Katayama, Hajime
AU - Sakudo, Mari
N1 - Funding Information:
We appreciate the financial support from JSPS. Kakenhi Grant number 15H03352. Mari Sakudo is grateful for the JSPS financial grant 17K03748 and the support from JCER. Toshi Arimura is grateful for the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (JPMEERF20202008) of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency. We are thankful for the helpful comments from Koki Oikawa and seminar participants at Waseda University, Tsukuba University, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Development Bank of Japan, and Institute of Statistical Research Resources for the Future.
Funding Information:
We appreciate the financial support from JSPS. Kakenhi Grant number 15H03352. Mari Sakudo is grateful for the JSPS financial grant 17K03748 and the support from JCER. Toshi Arimura is grateful for the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (JPMEERF20202008) of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency. We are thankful for the helpful comments from Koki Oikawa and seminar participants at Waseda University, Tsukuba University, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Development Bank of Japan, and Institute of Statistical Research Resources for the Future.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - To reduce their environmental impacts, a growing number of organizations worldwide have implemented environmental management systems (EMSs). In these organizations, energy conservation activities become usual behaviors for employees; thus, we hypothesize that employees continue such energy saving behaviors at home. This hypothesis is supported by data from surveys of individuals in Japan. Specifically, we find that the probability of engaging in energy saving practices at home is higher and that expenditures on electricity use are lower for individuals who work in organizations that implement EMSs than for individuals who do not work in organizations with EMSs. Our results suggest that beyond the original purpose of helping organizations reduce their environmental impacts, EMSs work as an intervention to promote household energy saving.
AB - To reduce their environmental impacts, a growing number of organizations worldwide have implemented environmental management systems (EMSs). In these organizations, energy conservation activities become usual behaviors for employees; thus, we hypothesize that employees continue such energy saving behaviors at home. This hypothesis is supported by data from surveys of individuals in Japan. Specifically, we find that the probability of engaging in energy saving practices at home is higher and that expenditures on electricity use are lower for individuals who work in organizations that implement EMSs than for individuals who do not work in organizations with EMSs. Our results suggest that beyond the original purpose of helping organizations reduce their environmental impacts, EMSs work as an intervention to promote household energy saving.
KW - Electricity
KW - Energy efficiency
KW - Energy saving practices
KW - Environmental management system
KW - Household electricity expenditure
KW - ISO14001
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U2 - 10.1007/s10640-021-00609-2
DO - 10.1007/s10640-021-00609-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85117191633
SN - 0924-6460
VL - 80
SP - 761
EP - 794
JO - Environmental and Resource Economics
JF - Environmental and Resource Economics
IS - 4
ER -
