The Effect of Extreme Wildfire Exposure on Energy Poverty: Evidence from Australia's Black Saturday Bushfires

Yitian Wang and Russell Smyth

No 2025-12, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This study assesses the effects of the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires (BSB), which was the deadliest bushfire in Australia's history, on household energy poverty. Using a linear panel event-study design, applied to matched longitudinal household and geographical

Keywords: Wildfires; Energy poverty; Australia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 Q40 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-07-01
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