Energy poverty and entrepreneurship

Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105469

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“…Most of the economics literature on early life adversity has emphasised that it has negative longterm effects. There are only a few studies in other areas (such as the underdog theory of entrepreneurship) that point to the benefits of early life adversity for building psychological assets, such as self-reliance, resilience, resourcefulness and risk-taking, which are important determinants of future economic success (Awaworyi Churchill et al, 2021;Cheng et al, 2021a;Cheng et al, 2021b;Cheng and Smyth, 2021). Consistently with previous research, we find that the effect of early life adversity on energy poverty channels through higher income.…”

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“…We utilise the 2014 wave because it contains detailed information on household energy consumption and spending, enabling us to construct different energy poverty measures. The CFPS has been used in other studies on energy poverty (Cheng et al, 2021b;Nie et al, 2021;Zhang et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2021).…”

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“…These psychological assets are all characteristics that are conducive to performing well at school, earning a higher income and other markers of success during adulthood (Fisher, 2015;Healey and Fisher, 2011). Studies also show that early life adversity fosters entrepreneurship (Awaworyi Churchill et al, 2021;Cheng et al, 2021b;Chu et al, 2016;Huang et al, 2021). Chu et al (2016) note that in China "many successful entrepreneurs claimed to have learned everything they know from 'the school of hard knocks', rather than business schools".…”

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“…Xiao et al found that energy poverty has a significantly negative impact on individual development through health status ( 42 ). Cheng et al believed that consistent with the disadvantage theory of entrepreneurship, the higher the share of household income spent on energy consumption or energy poverty, the higher the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur ( 43 ). Rafi et al believed that energy poverty has a significantly negative impact on the human capital development of Indian children ( 44 ).…”

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Multidimensional energy poverty and depression among China's older adults

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Jiang

2022

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Older adults often face more pronounced energy inequality in their daily lives, which is one of the reasons for their accumulation of stress or anxiety and may further aggravate their depression. Analyzing the relationship between energy poverty and the depression level of China's older adults will provide policy enlightenment for solving the problems of older adults' relative poverty, energy poverty, and mental poverty and thus promote happy and healthy aging. In this paper, using the data of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2018, we used the entropy weighting method to objectively assign weights to 10 indicators reflecting the status of energy poverty and construct a multidimensional energy poverty index for older adults. First, we analyzed the relationship between multidimensional energy poverty and the depression levels of older adults using multiple linear regression model and quantile regression models. Next, we used instrumental variable linear regression model and instrumental variable quantile regression models for endogeneity tests. Then, we performed a robustness check by replacing the core explanatory variable. After that, we conducted heterogeneity analyses by residential area, type of residence, and solitary status. Finally, we analyzed the mediating role of life satisfaction using structural equation modeling. Multidimensional energy poverty has aggravated depression among older adults, and the effect is greater for older adults with higher depression levels. The effect of multidimensional energy poverty on depression is greater for older adults in western China, urban areas, and those who live alone. Multidimensional energy poverty has aggravated depression among older adults by reducing their life satisfaction.

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“…Regarding the multi-faceted impact of energy poverty, scholars mainly focus on the impact of energy poverty on the economic issues such as economic growth (Acharya and Sadath, 2019), income inequality (Nguyen and Ali Nasir, 2021), and entrepreneurship (Cheng et al, 2021); the impact on environmental pollution (Calvo et al, 2022) and public health (Pan et al, 2021); and on other social issues such as education (Apergis et al, 2022). The impact of energy poverty on public health, the topic discussed in this paper, has always been one of the focuses of energy poverty research.…”

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Assessing the effect of energy poverty on the mental and physical health in China—Evidence from China family panel studies

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Lou

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Energy poverty is a crucial issue faced by countries all around the world, as the largest developing country in the world, China is also experiencing energy poverty problems. In order to explore the health effect of energy poverty in China, this paper first uses the principal component analysis (PCA) to construct a comprehensive index to measure energy poverty, and then adopts the ordinary least square method (OLS), fixed effect model (FE), instrumental variable two-stage least squares (IV-2SLS) regression to study the impact of energy poverty on the physical and mental health of Chinese people based on China Family Panel Studies 2018 (CFPS 2018). The study discovers that energy poverty significantly hampers the mental and physical health of Chinese people, an increase in energy poverty might cause 28.74%、18.69% decrease in mental and physical health respectively. Moreover, this paper further explores the influencing paths of energy poverty by intermediary effect and regulatory effect. It is revealed that in addition to directly affecting physical and mental health, energy poverty also have a negative impact on physical and mental health by affecting the accessibility of a series of resources, such as water and food, reducing the opportunities for physical exercise and increasing medical expenses. However, the impact is restricted by age and family income. Finally, under the national strategy of China, this paper further discusses how to give consideration to the joint implementation of heath and emission reduction strategies, then gives specific policy suggestions based on the results.

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Energy poverty and entrepreneurship

Cited by 47 publications

References 130 publications

Childhood adversity and energy poverty

Childhood adversity and energy poverty

Multidimensional energy poverty and depression among China's older adults

Assessing the effect of energy poverty on the mental and physical health in China—Evidence from China family panel studies

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