Fuel poverty and subjective wellbeing

被引：236

作者：

Churchill, Sefa Awaworyi ^{[1
]}

Smyth, Russell ^{[2
]}

Farrell, Lisa ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] RMIT Univ, Sch Econ Finance & Mkt, Melbourne, Vic 3000, Australia

[2] Monash Univ, Dept Econ, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia

来源：

ENERGY ECONOMICS | 2020年 / 86卷

关键词：

Energy poverty; Fuel poverty; Wellbeing; Life satisfaction; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; STRUCTURAL BREAKS; PROPENSITY SCORE; ELECTRICITY; HETEROSCEDASTICITY; SATISFACTION; INEQUALITY; INDICATORS; AUSTRALIA; DEMAND;

D O I：

10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104650

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We use 13 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to examine the effect of fuel poverty on subjective wellbeing (SWB) in Australia. We find that being in fuel poverty lowers SWB. When we instrument for fuel poverty using electricity and gas prices, we find that a standard deviation increase in fuel poverty is associated with declines of 0.168-0.458 standard deviations in SWB, depending on how fuel poverty is measured. The general conclusion that fuel poverty lowers SWB is robust to alternative ways of measuring fuel poverty, a suite of estimation approaches and other sensitivity checks. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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