Fuel poverty in the UK: Is there a difference between rural and urban areas?

Roberts, Deborah; Vera‐Toscano, Esperanza; Phimister, Euan

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2015.08.034

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“…In contrast, households with two adults and with dependent children need 51.5% more resources. Also, in line with Roberts et al (2015), living in an under-populated zone increases well-being, requiring 12.8% less expenditure than in the case of houses situated in heavily populated zones. Finally, the variable OLD (whether households have leaks or lack toilets inside the dwelling), is not significant, likely due to the interrelationship between this variable and the two measures of poverty.…”

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Fuel poverty and Well-Being:A consumer theory and stochastic frontier approach

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Evidence and conventional wisdom suggest that general poverty has a negative effect on the well-being of individuals. However, the mechanisms through which this effect occurs are not well-understood. In this paper we analyse the effect of general and fuel poverty as well as the social dimension through peer comparison on the objective and perceived well-being of households. We develop a novel approach to analyse fuel poverty and well-being based on consumer theory. Individual preferences are modelled using indifference curves and a distance function where the preferences of individuals are affected by their poverty status. We use the survey data from the official Spanish Living Conditions Survey (SLCS) for 2013 which contains over 16,800 observations on household members. The results show that both general and fuel poverty influence the reference indifference curve but that individuals also compare themselves with their peers. The proposed model also allows us to corroborate how general and fuel poverty affect well-being and how effective policies can be designed to improve social welfare.

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“…(2014) argue that the results differ depending on the fuel poverty measure chosen. Roberts et al (2015) analyse fuel poverty in the UK for the 1997-2008 period.…”

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Fuel poverty and Well-Being:A consumer theory and stochastic frontier approach

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“…1 In recent years, increasing energy prices and reductions in per capita income have exacerbated the occurrence of fuel poverty among households in many EU countries. Fuel poverty was initially analysed in the UK context (Boardman, 1991;or more recently, Hills, 2011;Moore, 2012;Waddams Price et al, 2012;Roberts et al, 2015). The issue has recently received increasing attention at European level: Ürge-Vorsatz and Tirado analyse fuel poverty in Hungary, Boltz and Pichler (2014) for Austria, Heindl (2015) for Germany and Lis et al (2016a;2016b) in Poland.…”

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Objective vs. subjective fuel poverty and self-assessed health

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Policies towards fuel poverty often use relative or absolute measures. The effectiveness of the official indicators in identifying fuel poor households and assessing its impact on health is an emerging social policy issue. In this paper we analyse objective and perceived fuel poverty as determinants of selfassessed health in Spain. In 2014, 5.1 million of her population could not afford to heat their homes to an adequate temperature. We propose a latent class ordered probit model to analyse the influence of fuel poverty on self-reported health in a sample of 25,000 individuals in 11,000 households for the 2011-2014 period. This original approach allows us to include a 'subjective' measure of fuel poverty in the class membership probabilities and purge the influence of the 'objective' measure of fuel poverty on self-assessed health. The results show that poor housing conditions, fuel poverty, and material deprivation have a negative impact on health. Also, individuals who rate themselves as fuel poor tend to report poorer health status. The effect of objective fuel poverty on health is stronger when unobserved heterogeneity of individuals is controlled for. Since objective measures alone may not fully capture the adverse effect of fuel poverty on health, we advocate the use of approaches that allow a combination of objective and subjective measures and its application by policy-makers. Moreover, it is important that policies to tackle fuel poverty take into account the different energy vectors and the prospects of a future smart and integrated energy system. Abstract.Policies towards fuel poverty often use relative or absolute measures. The effectiveness of the official indicators in identifying fuel poor households and assessing its impact on health is an emerging social policy issue. In this paper we analyse objective and perceived fuel poverty as determinants of self-assessed health in Spain. In 2014, 5.1 million of her population could not afford to heat their homes to an adequate temperature. We propose a latent class ordered probit model to analyse the influence of fuel poverty on self-reported health in a sample of 25,000 individuals in 11,000 households for the 2011-2014 period. This original approach allows us to include a 'subjective' measure of fuel poverty in the class membership probabilities and purge the influence of the 'objective' measure of fuel poverty on self-assessed health. The results show that poor housing conditions, fuel poverty, and material deprivation have a negative impact on health. Also, individuals who rate themselves as fuel poor tend to report poorer health status. The effect of objective fuel poverty on health is stronger when unobserved heterogeneity of individuals is controlled for. Since objective measures alone may not fully capture the adverse effect of fuel poverty on health, we advocate the use of approaches that allow a combination of objective and subjective measures and its application by policymakers. Moreover, it is important that policies to tackle fuel poverty take...

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“…Similar patterns of cuts and austerity measures are also present in many American States. In the UK, there is an increasing need for food aid (Lambie‐Mumford & Dowler, ), and there are significant problems of fuel poverty (Roberts, Vera‐Toscano, & Phimister, ). In addition to any potential physical impacts of this, there are often psychological and emotional implications.…”

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Social justice and remembering “the personal is political” in counselling and psychotherapy: So, what can therapists do?

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This brief contribution argues for the importance of a social justice perspective in counselling and psychotherapy, particularly within the current international socio‐political context. Much has been said about social justice over recent years in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy and counselling. Professionals and academics have expressed some concerns about what it might actually mean, or how difficult it might be in practice to engage with this perspective. In this paper, the activist phrase “the personal is political” (Hanisch, 1970) is used to illustrate the way in which a social justice approach to counselling and psychotherapy does not need to be complicated, but rather a foregrounding of a particular understanding of well‐being and the people we work with. Following this, some concrete and straightforward suggestions for how therapists might begin to act on their social justice values are made.

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Fuel poverty in the UK: Is there a difference between rural and urban areas?

Cited by 103 publications

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Fuel poverty and Well-Being:A consumer theory and stochastic frontier approach

Fuel poverty and Well-Being:A consumer theory and stochastic frontier approach

Objective vs. subjective fuel poverty and self-assessed health

Social justice and remembering “the personal is political” in counselling and psychotherapy: So, what can therapists do?

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