期刊
ENERGY POLICY
卷 131, 期 -, 页码 22-32出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.04.031
关键词
Distance functions; Fuel poverty; General poverty; Indifference curve; Stochastic frontier analysis; Subjective well-being
资金
- Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Government of Spain [ECO2017-86402-C2-1-R]
- Bank of Santander through the Campus of International Excellence within the framework of economic mobility grants of excellence for teachers and researchers of the University of Oviedo
Evidence and conventional wisdom suggest that general poverty has a negative effect on the well-being of individuals. However, the mechanisms through which this effect occurs are not well-understood through economic approach. In this paper, we analyse the influence of general and fuel poverty as well as the social dimension through peer comparison on the subjective well-being of households. We develop a novel approach to analyse fuel poverty and well-being based on consumer theory. Individual preferences are modelled using indifference curves and a distance function where the preferences of individuals are affected by their poverty status. We use the survey data from the official Spanish Life Condition Survey for 2013, which contains over 16,608 observations on household members. The results show that both general and fuel poverty influence the reference indifference curve but that individuals also compare themselves with their peers. The proposed model also allows us to corroborate how general and fuel poverty affect well-being and how effective policies can be designed to improve social welfare.
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