ABSTRACT
Until now, the scope of most public policy evaluations has been limited to studying the impacts of policies specifically directed at certain fields. Most evaluations of environmental policies, for example, have concentrated on their impacts on the behavior of consumers and producers, even though this behavior is also influenced by policies in other fields. Policies related to the use of the car, energy for heating, and domestic appliances are often strongly interlinked: policy instruments in one field will often also influence the effects of others in other fields. Here we do not question the existence of such interlinkages; we present an overview of the actual interlinkages that can be observed in the case of policies that have affected household behavior, either intentionally or unintentionally. Overviews such as this are important because of the lessons that can be learned and taken into account in the design of more effective policies in the future.
