Religiosity and Energy Poverty: Empirical evidence across countries

Ampofo, Akwasi; Mabefam, Matthew Gmalifo

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105463

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“…In all models, a 1% increase in technolog development will reduce EP by 0.855, 0.950, and 0.953%, respectively. The findings are justified from the study of Ampofo and Mabefam (2021) ; Kay et al (2021) , Riva et al (2021) , and Barrella et al (2022) .…”

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confidence: 84%

Assessing the Role of Green Finance and Education as New Determinants to Mitigate Energy Poverty

Hou

Khan

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Energy poverty (EP) is a problem that affects developed and developing economies, and its mitigation is of great significance to social welfare. EP affects Latin American countries, and policymakers have recently attempted to address this issue, particularly in the aftermath of the recent economic crisis. It is essential to measure and evaluate EP to implement strategies and policies effectively. Using a panel quantile regression approach, we investigate the heterogeneous impact of green finance, renewable energy (RE), and energy efficiency (EE) on EP for 33 Latin American countries from 2000 to 2018. Furthermore, certain associated control variables are incorporated into our model to avoid an omitted variable bias. According to empirical results, the impact of independent variables on EP is heterogeneous. Specifically, green finance is an essential source of alleviating EP, and it has a significant positive effect across all quantiles, but it is especially strong in the middle quantiles. RE and EE significantly mitigate EP, with the strongest effects occurring at higher quantiles. By including green finance, RE, and EE as the main explanatory determinants of EP, the findings urge policymakers in Latin American countries to design a comprehensive energy conservation policy to minimize the effects of massive EP.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 84%

Assessing the Role of Green Finance and Education as New Determinants to Mitigate Energy Poverty

Hou

Khan

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Moreover, Opoku et al (2021) show that women's representa tion in parliaments improves electricity access, energy efficiency and renewable energy consumption. The microeconomic studies emphasize the importance of cultural factors, namely ethnic diversity (Koomson et al, 2022), race (Dogan et al, 2022), religiosity (Ampofo & Mabefam, 2021;Churchill & Smyth, 2022) and culture. From an institutional perspective, Ahlborg et al (2015) point out that institutional quality, including democracy, improves access to electricity.…”

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“…Social factors, such as education, have been identified as improving access to electricity in developing countries (Apergis et al., 2022). A microeconomic literature highlights the importance of cultural factors, namely Protestantism (Churchill & Smyth, 2022), ethnic diversity (Koomson et al., 2022), race (Dogan et al., 2022), religiosity (Ampofo & Mabefam, 2021) and culture (Chaudhry & Shafiullah, 2021). Studies highlighting macroeconomic factors appear to be more numerous and emphasize the role of financial inclusion (Koomson & Danquah, 2021), financial development (Mohsin et al., 2022), foreign aid (Munyanyi & Churchill, 2022), government spending (Nguyen & Su, 2022), per capita income (Zhang et al., 2019), income inequality (Nguyen & Nasir, 2021) and most recently, foreign capital flows (Djeunankan et al., 2023; Nguea et al., 2022).…”

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Does macroeconomic instability hamper access to electricity? Evidence from developing countries

Kamguia,

Djeunankan,

Tadadjeu

et al. 2023

Econ of Transit and Inst Chang

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A large body of literature argues that macroeconomic stability is a prerequisite for the sustainable development of economies. Moreover, it is also recognized that the most dynamic economies do not necessarily grow faster than others in good times, but they do manage to be more resilient and limit the extent of a downturn in bad times. Therefore, this study draws on this theoretical framework to examine the effect of macroeconomic instability on access to electricity in developing countries. We find that macroeconomic instability reduces access to electricity for the total urban and rural populations. In addition, macroeconomic instability increases the access gap between urban and rural populations in terms of electricity access. However, the adverse effect of macroeconomic instability on access to electricity is more pronounced in oil exporting countries. However, democracy mitigates this deleterious effect of macroeconomic instability on access to electricity. Based on these results, several policy recommendations are discussed in this paper.

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“…The main advantage of the Lewbel (2012) method is that it can be employed in cases when a conventional instrument is not available or weak (Mishra & Smyth, 2015). It has been widely employed as an identification strategy in the literature on energy poverty (see, e.g., Ampofo & Mabefam, 2021;Awaworyi Churchill et al, 2020b;Farrell & Fry, 2021;Zhang et al, 2021). The Lewbel (2012) approach does not require one to satisfy the exclusion restriction.…”

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confidence: 99%

Are you puffing your Children's future away? Energy poverty and childhood exposure to passive smoking

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Religiosity and Energy Poverty: Empirical evidence across countries

Cited by 52 publications

References 47 publications

Assessing the Role of Green Finance and Education as New Determinants to Mitigate Energy Poverty

Assessing the Role of Green Finance and Education as New Determinants to Mitigate Energy Poverty

Does macroeconomic instability hamper access to electricity? Evidence from developing countries

Are you puffing your Children's future away? Energy poverty and childhood exposure to passive smoking

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