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Fuel poverty and indoor pollution: Providing financial support vs. combatting poor housing?

Dorothée Charlier (), Bérangère Legendre () and Anna Risch

No 2017.05, Policy Papers from FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Abstract: In this paper, we study the causal effect of two social policies on fuel poverty. The potential spillover effects of such policies on pollution are also considered. We apply matching methods to assess the impact of social energy tariff and social housing on fuel poverty. We show that social housing, probably by impacting the housing energy efficiency, allows reducing fuel poverty by about 5.9%. On the contrary, the price based policy Ð the social energy tariff- has no impact on fuel poverty. By demonstrating that fuel poor households emit significantly more pollutant gazes, we foresee then the potential spillover effects of policies decreasing fuel poverty: developing social housing could lead to reduce pollution and improve public health. The present research opens up space for a public debate on the image of social housing, which needs clearly to be rehabilitated in France.

Keywords: Fuel Poverty; Social housing; social energy tariff; indoor pollution; matching method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C52 Q41 Q51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2017-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-eur and nep-ure
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