论文标题
熟悉程度有助于采用：电动汽车的证据
Familiarity Facilitates Adoption: Evidence from Electric Vehicles
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论文摘要
本文表明，提高新技术的普遍性的非价格干预促进了其进一步采用。 Bluela计划将电动汽车（EV）放在许多人口贩运的地区，主要是（但不是仅针对中低收入家庭）。我们表明，使用有关这些家庭补贴的数据以及差异差异策略，Bluela与新的EV收养的33％相关联，证明了大量公共投资是合理的。尽管该计划提供了替代汽车所有权的替代品，但我们的发现与以下假设一致，即对电动汽车的熟悉程度越来越可以促进采用。
This paper shows that a non-price intervention which increased the prevalence of a new technology facilitated its further adoption. The BlueLA program put Electric Vehicles (EVs) for public use in many heavily trafficked areas, primarily (but not exclusively) aimed at low-to-middle income households. We show, using data on subsidies for these households and a difference-in differences strategy, that BlueLA is associated with a 33\% increase of new EV adoptions, justifying a substantial portion of public investment. While the program provides a substitute to car ownership, our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that increasing familiarity with EVs could facilitate adoption.
