2019/01/22 by Dorothée Charlier, Bérangère Legendre, Berangère Legendre
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Energy · Environmental Science · #Energy and Environment Impacts #Energy, Environment, Economic Growth #Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
paper · doi:10.5547/01956574.40.2.bleg
openalex publication_date 2019/01/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
In this study we suggest that a more careful and systematic understanding of fuel poverty can be developed through a multidimensional approach to the relationship between monetary poverty, residential energy efficiency, and heating restriction. Our objective is to provide new ways to better identify those who suffer the most from fuel poverty to optimize policy. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to measure poverty in three steps following Sen (1979): (i) combining poverty characteristics into an aggregate measure involving a fuel poverty index (FPI), (ii) identification and comparison of poor people according to existing and new definitions and (iii) testing the robustness of the fuel poverty composite indicator. Our results show that the usual measures reveal a gap that does not consider all the dimensions of fuel poverty, excluding those who are at or above a certain threshold, but who are nevertheless vulnerable.