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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113145
	Cash instead of subsidy: Assessing the impact of the iranian energy subsidy reform on households
	Zarepour, Zahra; Wagner, Natascha
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0301-4215
EISSN	1873-6777
卷号	168 页码:11
英文摘要	The 2010 energy subsidy reform in Iran is a unique case of redistributive policy as the savings from the subsidy cut have been redirected to households as unconditional, universal cash transfer. While theoretically, the cash transfer was large enough to keep the utility of the average household at the initial level, this study explores the practical impacts of the reform. We analyze panel data on income/expenditure of Iranian households for the period 2010-2012. Since this is a universal reform, we exploit the time dimension and the intensity of energy consumption in the identification and assess the robustness of the results with sub-sample and placebo analyses. Overall, the energy subsidy reform caused a significant shrinkage (7%-9%) in households' real consumption. The cash transfer failed to fully compensate the negative impact of the subsidy removal. The impact is heterogeneous, varying along the intensity of energy consumption, geographical location, income and the share of the cash transfer in a household's income. A non-negligible policy accomplishment of the reform is that within its first two years poverty was mitigated in absolute and relative terms and income inequality slightly improved. Nevertheless, the government is under pressure because inflation counteracts these gains.
英文关键词	Energy subsidy reform; Subsidy cut; Cash transfer; Impact assessment; Household expenditures; Iran
学科领域	Economics; Energy & Fuels; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:000828204900009
来源期刊	ENERGY POLICY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/272358
作者单位	Erasmus University Rotterdam; Radboud University Nijmegen
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zarepour, Zahra,Wagner, Natascha. Cash instead of subsidy: Assessing the impact of the iranian energy subsidy reform on households[J],2022,168:11.
APA	Zarepour, Zahra,&Wagner, Natascha.(2022).Cash instead of subsidy: Assessing the impact of the iranian energy subsidy reform on households.ENERGY POLICY,168,11.
MLA	Zarepour, Zahra,et al."Cash instead of subsidy: Assessing the impact of the iranian energy subsidy reform on households".ENERGY POLICY 168(2022):11.