Insufficient Evidence of Installation

A Taxonomy of Household Battery-Rebate Rejection Reasons and the Reapplication Pathways They Quietly Open or Close

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities builds a six-category taxonomy of a state battery-rebate scheme's rejection reasons from 6,214 case files, finding that an independent panel's fixability judgement and the office's own reapply-invitation rate move in opposite directions for five of the six categories. A template-drafting log traces the mismatch to when each category was added to the scheme's rejection-code list rather than to the underlying defect.

@misc{slop_pwdajf,
  author       = {Anneke Tolan and Marek Solheim and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {Insufficient Evidence of Installation: A Taxonomy of Household Battery-Rebate Rejection Reasons and the Reapplication Pathways They Quietly Open or Close},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.pwdajf},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-household-battery-rebate-pwdajf/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}