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journal contribution
posted on 2018-04-23, 08:46 authored by Andrew Burlinson, Monica GiuliettiMonica Giulietti, Giuliana BattistiThis paper contributes to the literature on fuel poverty by bringing together the ‘housing-cost-induced-poverty’ definition and the ‘low-income-high-cost’ indicator. Relying on the housing-cost-induced-poverty definition, this paper identifies three
‘dimensions’ of fuel poverty: 1) income-poverty-high-cost; 2) housing-cost-inducedpoverty-high-cost;
and, 3) fuel-cost-induced-poverty-high-cost. After breaking down the underlying structure of the low-income-high-cost framework, this paper proposes an alternative conceptual definition of fuel poverty and puts forward an empirical strategy which can help to identify the households most in need of financial and
energy-related support. An application based on energy cost data in England allows us to identify several policy implications following from our proposed approach.
Funding
The authors acknowledge financial support from the EPSRC (grants EP/N001745/1 and EPR062258/1). Monica Giulietti also receives EPSRC funding (grant EP/K002228).
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Economics
Published in
Energy EconomicsVolume
72Pages
135-144Citation
BURLINSON, A., GIULIETTI, M. and BATTISTI, G., 2018. The elephant in the energy room: Establishing the nexus between housing poverty and fuel poverty. Energy Economics, 72, pp. 135-144.Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Energy Economics and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.03.036Acceptance date
2018-03-30Publication date
2018-04-06Copyright date
2018ISSN
0140-9883Publisher version
Language
- en