An economic approach to the study of the relationship between housing hazards and health: The case of residential fuel poverty in France

Autor: Sondès Kahouli
Přispěvatelé: Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer (AMURE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Economics and Econometrics
020209 energy
Legislation
02 engineering and technology
Argument
0502 economics and business
Health care
JEL: I - Health
Education
and Welfare/I.I0 - General
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Economics
050207 economics
JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
Public economics
[QFIN]Quantitative Finance [q-fin]
business.industry
Residential fuel poverty Health Panel model Causality Instrumental variables France
05 social sciences
Instrumental variable
1. No poverty
Hazard
Causality
3. Good health
JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q4 - Energy
General Energy
Scale (social sciences)
JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
JEL: I - Health
Education
and Welfare
business
Fuel poverty
Zdroj: Energy Economics
Energy Economics, Elsevier, 2020, 85, pp.104592. ⟨10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104592⟩
Energy Economics, 2020, 85, pp.104592. ⟨10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104592⟩
ISSN: 0140-9883
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104592⟩
Popis: International audience; The impact of housing hazards on health outcomes is becoming a major issue especially given the recent and on-going reviews of energy legislation in many European countries. A large body of epidemiological literature argues that fuel poverty – a frequently debated example of a housing hazard involving low indoor temperatures – is associated with heightened health risks.By using a large scale nationally representative dataset, I seek in this article to delve into this alleged association and uncover a causal relationship between fuel poverty and self-assessed health. Coming from an economics standpoint, I used a panel approach based on an instrumental fixed-effects model which allow me to analyse causality. I used both objective and subjective fuel-poverty indicators.The results show that there is a significant causal relationship between fuel poverty and self-assessed health status. The estimated causality is exacerbated when subjective fuel-poverty indicators are used. The results also show that the negative impact of fuel poverty on health is deferred, meaning that fuel poverty takes time to manifest itself in terms of poor health.In policy terms, this study adds to the debate on investing in housing energy-efficiency schemes to reduce fuel poverty and thereby improve health outcomes. It also lends support to the argument according to which improving housing conditions to curb fuel poverty is a lever for reducing pubic expenditures on health care.
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