Fuel poverty in residential housing: providing financial support versus combatting substandard housing
| Autor: | Bérangère Legendre, Dorothée Charlier, Anna Risch |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie (IREGE), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble (GAEL), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), ANR-14-CE05-0008,REVE,REduction soutenable de la pauVreté Energétique(2014), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Economics and Econometrics
050208 finance Public housing JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q4 - Energy/Q.Q4.Q41 - Demand and Supply • Prices 05 social sciences 1. No poverty social housing [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C5 - Econometric Modeling/C.C5.C52 - Model Evaluation Validation and Selection Fuel poverty 13. Climate action social energy subsidy 11. Sustainability 0502 economics and business Development economics matching method Economics [SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q5 - Environmental Economics/Q.Q5.Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects 050207 economics |
| Zdroj: | Applied Economics Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019, 51 (49), pp.5369-5387. ⟨10.1080/00036846.2019.1613501⟩ Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019, pp.1-19 American Economic Journal: Applied Economics American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, 2019, pp.1-19 HAL Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019, 51 (49), pp.1-19. ⟨10.1080/00036846.2019.1613501⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0003-6846 1466-4283 1945-7782 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00036846.2019.1613501⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; Between 50 and 125 million Europeans are unable to afford the energy needed for adequate heating, cooking, light and use of appliances in the home. Tackling fuel poverty has thus become a public policy challenge. In this article, we assess the effectiveness of social energy subsidies and social housing to reduce fuel poverty. The literature reports that rising fuel prices, low incomes and energy-inefficient housing are the main causes of fuel poverty. Existing public policies focus mainly on price- and income-based measures to reduce fuel poverty, such as social energy subsidies. This type of policy is palliative as it does not permit to sustainably eradicate fuel poverty. Other policies aim to encourage renovation in order to improve energy efficiency. Those policies are curative as they sustainably reduce one cause of fuel poverty: energy inefficiency. In this article, we focus on another public policy to tackle fuel poverty: social housing. We believe that this policy could be preventive, as the literature reports the better energy efficiency of social housing. We use matching methods and find that living in social housing decreases fuel poverty by 5.4% to 9.1%. On the contrary, social energy subsidies have no effect on fuel poverty. |
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