文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：How does population aging affect household carbon emissions? Evidence from Chinese urban and rural areas

作者：Fan, Jianshuang[1,2];Zhou, Lin[1];Zhang, Yan[3];Shao, Shuai[4,5];Ma, Miao[1]

机构：[1]Zhejiang Univ Technol, Sch Management, Hangzhou 310023, Peoples R China;[2]Zhejiang Univ Technol, China Acad Housing & Real Estate, Hangzhou 310023, Peoples R China;[3]Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Dept Environm Econ & Management, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel;[4]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[5]Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Inst Finance & Econ Res, Sch Urban & Reg Sci, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China

年份：2021

卷号：100

外文期刊名：ENERGY ECONOMICS

收录：;EI(收录号：20212410483118);WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000694892100029)】；

基金：This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 71774142, 71774144, 71773075, and 71922015), the Chinese National Funding of Social Sciences (No. 21ZDA084), the Research Project of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (No. 17YJAZH022), the Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (No. LZ20G030002), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Provincial Universities of Zhejiang (No. GB201901002), the Key Projects of the Ministry of Education (No. 18JZD033), and Shanghai Soft Science Research Program (No. 20692103100).

语种：英文

外文关键词：Population aging; Household carbon emissions; Urban and rural areas; Panel threshold model; Mechanism analysis; China

摘要：Population aging has become a salient demographic phenomenon in China, thus causing social and economic concerns. However, little is known about the impact of population aging on the environment. The available literature mainly emphasizes decreases in energy consumption or carbon emissions caused by population aging, conveying limited information about the impact of population aging on household carbon emissions. This paper explores the impact of population aging on household carbon emissions in both urban and rural areas of China, using panel data of 30 provinces over 1997-2017. The relationship between population aging and household carbon emissions is investigated with a threshold regression model and a two-stage instrumental variable regression model. The results show that urban population aging increases urban household carbon emissions at levels both below and above 0.083, while this positive impact is comparatively smaller when urban population aging is above 0.083. However, at the national level, rural population aging has no significant impact on rural household carbon emissions at the level below 0.066, while rural population aging significantly increases rural household carbon emissions at the level above 0.066. Rural population aging has a significant positive effect on the increase in household carbon emissions in northern heating areas, when rural population aging is both below and above 0.077. The analysis of the underlying mechanism identifies consumption structure and consumption level as intermediary factors that affect the nonlinear relationship between urban population aging and urban household carbon emissions. Furthermore, the income level also affects the nonlinear relationship between rural population aging and rural household carbon emissions.