Journal
ENERGY ECONOMICS
Volume 86, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104650
Keywords
Energy poverty; Fuel poverty; Wellbeing; Life satisfaction
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- Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS)
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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. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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