Measuring the energy poverty and the severity in Korea

Ha-Hyun Jo, Hyung-Woo Lim and Hae-Dong Kim
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Ha-Hyun Jo: Yonsei Univ
Hyung-Woo Lim: Yonsei Univ
Hae-Dong Kim: Yonsei Univ

No 2019rwp-150, Working papers from Yonsei University, Yonsei Economics Research Institute

Abstract: In this study, we measure the energy poverty rate and the severity of energy poverty through various indicators. Energy voucher line, poverty line, TPR, MIS and MEPI are used for measuring the poverty rate and severity in Korea. There are few empirical comparative analysis in a real case about energy poverty. To overcome the limitation of TPR, the required energy consumption is estimated by quantile regression. Finally, we measure the severity of energy poverty classification, which is defined as a rate of nesting in the indicators. The main conclusion of this paper involves the next steps to reach an appropriate target of energy policies.

Keywords: Energy poverty rate; severity of energy poverty; MEPI; required energy consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31pages
Date: 2019-10
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