Are you Puffing your Children's Future Away? Energy Poverty and Childhood Exposure to Passive Smoking

Kushneel Prakash, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Russell Smyth

No 1075, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Abstract: We examine whether having a parent who smoked during one's childhood or adolescence increases the probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that people who had a parent who smoked when they were young are 0.8 to 1.4 percentage points more likely to be in energy poverty later in life. Various checks suggest that this relationship can be regarded as being plausibly causal. We identify health, human capital, labour market outcomes and non-cognitive traits as channels through which early life exposure to passive smoking increases the likelihood of being in energy poverty. Our results have important implications for early life interventions to address the deficits caused by exposure to passive smoking.

Keywords: energy poverty; fuel poverty; smoking; early life shocks; Australia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 Q41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/251728/1/GLO-DP-1075.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Are you puffing your Children's future away? Energy poverty and childhood exposure to passive smoking (2022)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:glodps:1075

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (econstor@zbw-workspace.eu).