 Determinants of energy poverty: Trends in Spain in times of economic change (20062021)Maria T. Costa-Campi, Elisenda Jové-Llopis, Jordi Planelles-Cortes, and Elisa Trujillo-Baute Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 2024, vol. Volume 13, issue Number 1 Abstract: The debate concerning energy affordability in Europe is more pressing than ever, not solely as an energy issue but also as a broader social concern related to climate change, poverty, and health deprivation. This paper empirically investigates the factors leading to household energy vulnerability and identifies new dimensions and profiles affected by this structural problem. To carry out this econometric analysis, we draw on an exhaustive sample of more than 300,000 households extracted from the Spanish Household Budget Survey (HBS) for the period 20062021. Our empirical results confirm that energy poverty in Spain remains a chronic problem with a tendency to worsen during times of economic crisis and, most particularly, during the global economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study identifies two main groupsthe retired and women living aloneas being at greatest risk of energy poverty. Our results also point to the importance of the economic activity performed by household members in determining the probability of their being energy poor. JEL-codes: F0 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aen:eeepjl:eeep13-1-jove Access Statistics for this article More articles in Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy from International Association for Energy Economics |
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