Evaluating the Impact of Energy Poverty in a Multidimensional Setting
Evaluating the Impact of Energy Poverty in a Multidimensional Setting
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评估多维环境下能源贫困的影响
DOI：
10.5547/01956574.42.1.edel
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发表时间：
2021
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R. Brau
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Erica Delugas;R. Brau
我们通过多维能源贫困指数(MEPI)中的主客观指标相结合的方法来研究能源贫困与主观幸福感的关系。使用意大利发布的关于收入和生活条件的欧洲调查，我们首先评估该指数相对于标准的“可负担性”指标的识别能力。随后，我们使用MEPI在一个同时的双变量有序概率模型中解释了主观幸福感和能源贫困之间的内生性，这些内生性是由考虑主观指标引起的。我们发现，主观指标在识别能源贫乏方面具有明显的附加作用，并且MEPI和可负担性指标之间的重叠度相对较低。同样，计量经济学估计发现，随着MEPI严重程度的上升，生活满意度会产生相当大的、在统计上显著的负面影响。相比之下，可负担性指标几乎没有任何影响。当环保部只考虑客观指标的子集时，其影响要小得多。
We study the relationship between energy poverty and subjective well-being by combining objective and subjective indicators in a multidimensional energy poverty index (MEPI). Using the Italian release of the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions, we first assess the identification power of this index vis-a-vis standard ’affordability’ indicators. Subsequently, we use the MEPI in a simultaneous bivariate ordered probit model accounting for the endogeneity between subjective well-being and energy poverty arising from considering subjective indicators. We find a clear additional role by the subjective indicator in the identification of the energy-poor and a relatively low overlapping degree between MEPI and affordability measures. Likewise, econometric estimations detect sizeable and statistically significant negative effects on life satisfaction as the severity level of the MEPI rises. In contrast, virtually no effects are found with affordability indicators. The impact is substantially smaller when the MEPI only considers the subset of objective indicators.