Household energy use in Britain: a distributional analysis

@inproceedings{Advani2013HouseholdEU,
  title={Household energy use in Britain: a distributional analysis},
  author={Arun Advani and Paul Johnson and Andrew Leicester and George Stoye},
  year={2013},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:155384859}
}

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