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Fuel Poverty and Health: A Shared Agenda for Policy

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  • Dorothée Charlier
  • Bérangère Legendre

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Protecting and improving health and mitigation of climate change have a shared agenda. In this paper, we contribute to the literature by assessing the link between fuel poverty and health. Using dynamic probit models, we examine the influence of fuel poverty on health. We control for state dependency of health as we regard health status to be closely related to previous health trajectories. Given that unobserved heterogeneity might influence health status and fuel poverty simultaneously, we have corrected for the endogeneity bias which could affect our results. We conclude that being fuel-poor increases the risk of bad health by slightly more than a factor of 7 for those whose health is already poor and by 1.82 for those in good health. For policy makers, combating fuel poverty reduces sources of discomfort which could severely affect the health of a dwelling?s inhabitants, and also reduces healthcare spending.

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  • Dorothée Charlier & Bérangère Legendre, 2022. "Fuel Poverty and Health: A Shared Agenda for Policy," Revue d'économie politique, Dalloz, vol. 132(2), pages 245-272.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:repdal:redp_322_0245
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    1. Ongo Nkoa, Bruno Emmanuel & Tadadjeu, Sosson & Njangang, Henri, 2023. "Rich in the dark: Natural resources and energy poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).

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