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  1. Fuel poverty in Ireland
    an analysis of trends and profiles
    Published: June 29, 2022
    Publisher:  ESRI, Dublin

    Fuel poverty in Ireland is a significant issue faced by almost a quarter of the population as per government statistics. In this study, we investigate the trends in fuel poverty in Ireland between 2008 and 2020 using the Irish subset of EU SILC data.... more

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    Fuel poverty in Ireland is a significant issue faced by almost a quarter of the population as per government statistics. In this study, we investigate the trends in fuel poverty in Ireland between 2008 and 2020 using the Irish subset of EU SILC data. We find that the increase in the proportion of households receiving fuel allowance and the decrease in the proportion of poor-quality dwellings have a significant positive impact on the decline in aggregate fuel poverty experienced. We also analyse a sample of low-income households that experience fuel poverty and compare groups that are targeted by official policies with others on key indicators. We find that the existing supports normally target lower-income households who live in energy-inefficient dwellings and are of retirement age. We also find that non-targeted larger urban families who live in rented or mortgaged dwellings experience significant fuel poverty due to difficulty paying bills. We identify some gaps in the current policies that target fuel poverty. We propose that the existing policies in Ireland targeting fuel poverty should be expanded to effectively reduce fuel poverty in Ireland.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/265908
    Series: ESRI working paper ; no. 729 (June 2022)
    Subjects: Fuel poverty; energy-efficient retrofits; policy evaluation
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 27 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Fuel poverty in Queensland
    horizontal and vertical impacts of the 2022 energy crisis
    Published: 12 January 2023
    Publisher:  University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics, [Cambridge]

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    Language: English
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    Series: Cambridge working paper in economics ; 2257
    EPRG working paper ; 2216
    Subjects: Fuel poverty; policy targeting efficiency; electricity prices
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 27 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. Getting warmer
    fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured... more

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    This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional income-fuel cost indicators, we also use more proximal heating deprivation indicators. We create and draw upon a set of composite indicators that concomitantly capture (the lack of) affordability and thermal comfort. Depending on which fuel deprivation indicator is used, we find heterogeneous associations between fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the income-fuel cost balance and more proximal perceptions of heating adequacy, reveals the presence of more pronounced associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong associations would have been less pronounced or masked when using separately each of the components of our composite fuel deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health conditions plays a limited role in attenuating our results, while material deprivation partially, but not fully, attenuates our associations between fuel deprivation and well-being. These results remain robust when bounding analysis is employed to test the potential confounding role of unobservables. Our analysis suggests that composite fuel deprivation indicators may be useful energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin".

     

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    hdl: 10419/236202
    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 903
    Subjects: Fuel poverty; biomarkers; health; well-being
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 35 Seiten)