Internal Migration and Energy Poverty

Leonard Le Roux () and Johanna Choumert-Nkolo ()
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Leonard Le Roux: Sciences Po Department of Economics
Johanna Choumert-Nkolo: EDI Global

No 2023.01, Working Papers from FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Abstract: This paper presents a first analysis of the relationship between rural-urban migration and energy poverty in South Africa, and to the authors' knowledge in Africa, using a nationally representative panel dataset. Using a dynamic difference in differences approach, energy poverty changes for both migrants and non-migrants are tracked over a ten-year period from 2008 to 2017. On average, moving to urban areas results in reductions in energy poverty for migrants themselves, with especially dramatic reductions in the use of traditional cooking fuels. Roughly one in five new urban arrivals move into informal shack dwellings where initial gains in energy access are negligible, but even for these migrants, the gains from migration grow over time. Effects on households, differences between male and female migrants, and other amenitities are also explored.

Keywords: Energy Poverty; Migration; Urbanization; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 N50 O15 Q41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2023-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-ene, nep-mig, nep-reg and nep-ure
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