Fuel poverty and subjective wellbeing
By Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth *, L. Farrell. 2020
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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.
Subfields: Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science
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- Energy poverty and public health: Global evidence (2021, background): “…assessed the impact of energy poverty on various key development dimensions, such as education (Oum, 2019), gender (Ruchi, 2015; Listo, 2018), and subjective wellbeing (Awaworyi Churchill et al., 2020), as well as a variety of other socio-economic dimensions (see Bhattacharyya, 2012 for a review).”