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Household Demand for Firewood in Rhode Island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Wayne R. Stoddard ,
Thomas F. Weaver  and
Timothy J. Tyrrell
Wayne R. Stoddard
Affiliation:
Department of Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island
Thomas F. Weaver
Affiliation:
Department of Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island
Timothy J. Tyrrell
Affiliation:
Department of Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island
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Abstract

Data from a sample of Rhode Island households indicate that firewood use along with wood stove use is increasing in response to increases in conventional heating fuel costs. More than half the sample of households reported the intention to reduce their heating fuel costs as their primary reason for burning wood. For nearly 20 percent of the households, the 1977–78 study season was the first heating season that these households had burned firewood. Among wood stove users, 50 percent began using a wood stove for the first season, the 1977–78 study season. Regression results indicate that the variables price, income and primary reason firewood is burned are important in the household's decision on the quantity of firewood burned.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , April 1979 , pp. 21 - 23
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Helpful comments by S. Weeks and two anonymous reviewers are gratefully acknowledged. This study was supported by the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station, contribution No. 1840.

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