TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cheng, Zhiming
AU  - Guo, Liwen
AU  - Smyth, Russell
AU  - Tani, Massimiliano
        TI  - Childhood Adversity and Energy Poverty
        PY  - 2021/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14809
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14809
        AB  - We use data from China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of being a child or adolescent in China's Great Famine on the likelihood of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that a one unit increase in the intensity of the Famine, measured by the number of excess deaths per 100 people, is associated with a 1.8-3.5 percentage points decline in the probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood, depending on the exact specification and measure of energy poverty. We find that personal income is a channel through which being a child or adolescent during the Great Famine affects the proclivity to be in energy poverty later in life. These findings are robust to alternative ways of measuring childhood adversity and energy poverty.
        KW  - China
KW  - energy poverty
KW  - childhood adversity
KW  - the Chinese Great Famine
        ER  -