Beschrijving
Energy poverty - inability to afford adequately heating one's house - is especially urgent for low-income households living in poorly insulated houses. This paper evaluates the effects of about 1,000 insulation renovations performed by 5 Dutch public housing providers in 2017-2019, on gas consumption and energy burden of tenants. Due to the compulsory character of the renovations, we are able to obtain insights for the whole distribution of households at risk of energy poverty. We use longitudinal dwelling and household data, and exploit a combination of a difference-in-difference estimator and machine learning. Results show large heterogeneity in renovation effects, which seems mainly to be driven by the size of gas consumption before renovation. Large gas users experience up to 30% energy savings, against 8% for small gas users.| Periode | 1 jul. 2022 |
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| Evenementstitel | 27th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE 2022) |
| Evenementstype | Congres |
| Locatie | Rimini, ItaliëToon op kaart |