Energy Expenditure in Egypt: Empirical Evidence Based on a Quantile Regression Approach

Belaid, Fateh; Rault, Christophe

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1007/s10666-021-09764-8

Title :

Energy Expenditure in Egypt: Empirical Evidence Based on a Quantile Regression Approach

Author(s) :

Belaid, Fateh [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Rault, Christophe [Auteur]

Journal title :

Environmental Modeling & Assessment

Publisher :

Springer

Publication date :

2021-03-22

ISSN :

1420-2026

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Gestion et management

English abstract : [en]

This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 Egyptian HIECS Survey, we develop a quantile regression model with an innovative variable selection approach ...
Show more >This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 Egyptian HIECS Survey, we develop a quantile regression model with an innovative variable selection approach via the adaptive lasso regularization technique to untangle the spectrum of household energy expenditure. Unsurprisingly, income, age, household size, housing size, and employment status are salient predictors for energy expenditure. Housing characteristics have a moderate impact, while socio-economic attributes have a much larger one. The most significant variations in household energy expenditures in Egypt are mainly due to variations in income, household size, and housing type. Our findings document substantial differences in household energy expenditure, originating from the asymmetric tails of the energy expenditure distribution. This outcome highlights the added value of implementing quantile regression methods. Our empirical results have various interesting policy implications regarding residential energy efficiency and carbon emissions reduction in Egypt. It proposes that targeting policies to specific households can improve the effectiveness of energy efficiency policies. These policies could combine both supply-side interventions, such as reducing energy services’ cost and demand-side policies for energy-intensive consumers.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

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Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

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