Measuring the level of energy and health expenditure among energy-poor and non-poor households in india: a disaggregated analysis

Energy Poverty and Health Care Expenditures: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

“…Recently, using data from the Nigerian 2019 General Household Survey, Okorie and Lin (2022) show that energy-poor households have higher odds of experiencing catastrophic health expenditures than nonenergy-poor households. This result is also found by Faizan and Thakur (2022) based on data from the National Sample Survey 68th quinquennial round of Household Consumer Expenditure in India. Their study indicates that the per capita expenditure on health-related problems is high in energy-poor households compared to non-energy-poor households.…”

“…The RE-TPM estimation results of the impacts of EP on four types of health care expenditures are shown in Table 1. EP is significantly associated with higher health care costs, regardless of whether the expenditures are total, inpatient, OOP or other expenditures (Table 1, Columns 2, 4, 6, and 8), which is consistent with Oliveras, Artazcoz, et al (2020) for Spain, Bukari et al (2021) for Ghana, and Faizan and Thakur (2022) for India.…”