• Graduate program
  • Research
  • News
  • Events
    • Summer School
      • Climate Change
      • Gender in Society
      • Inequalities in Health and Healthcare
      • Business Data Science Summer School Program
      • Receive updates
    • Events Calendar
    • Events Archive
    • Tinbergen Institute Lectures
    • Conference: Consumer Search and Markets
    • Annual Tinbergen Institute Conference
  • Summer School
    • Climate Change
    • Gender in Society
    • Inequalities in Health and Healthcare
    • Business Data Science Summer School Program
    • Receive updates
  • Alumni
  • Magazine
Home | Events Archive | Do Energy-Efficient Homes improve Health of the Residents? Evidence from a Large Scale Quasi-Experiment.
Seminar

Do Energy-Efficient Homes improve Health of the Residents? Evidence from a Large Scale Quasi-Experiment.

  • Series
    Brown Bag Seminars General Economics
  • Speaker
    Ioulia Ossokina (Eindhoven University of Technology)
  • Field
    Spatial Economics
  • Location
    Erasmus University Rotterdam, E building, Kitchen/Lounge E1
    Rotterdam
  • Date and time

    April 04, 2024
    12:00 - 13:00

Abstract

Reduced housing quality is often associated with a wide range of negative health outcomes. Our paper estimates the importance of this relationship for the Netherlands - a developed country with a high level of health care. We exploit data from a large-scale quasi-experimental retrofitting program which improved the energy efficiency of old homes, reducing draught, cold and mould for some 150,000 low-income tenants. Making use of the staggered implementation of the program and a difference-in-differences design, we study the effects on the health expenditures and medication usage of the residents during six years after the retrofit. We also zoom in into specific health effects for various vulnerable groups.