Does centralized residence promote the use of cleaner cooking fuels? Evidence from rural China |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Economics and Finance, Xi''an Jiaotong University, Xi''an, Shaanxi 710049, PR China;2. Harvard-China Project, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 20138, USA;3. College of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, PR China;4. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA;1. Escuela de Administración y Negocios, Universidad de Concepción, Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (NENRE EfD-Chile), and Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Avenida Vicente Méndez 595, Casilla 537, Chillán, Región de Ñuble, Chile;2. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Talca, Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (NENRE EfD-Chile), Chile;3. Department of Mathematical Engineering, Universidad de La Frontera, Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (NENRE EfD-Chile), Chile;2. School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China;3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Electric Vehicles in Beijing, Beijing 100081, China;4. Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Western Australia, Australia;5. Beijing Natural Science Foundation, Beijing 100195, China |
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| Abstract: | The Chinese government has implemented the rural centralized residence (RCR) policy to promote rural development in 24 provinces since 2005. This study aims to estimate the effects of RCR on households' choice of clean cooking fuels by applying the instrumental variable approach on a dataset with 3685 observations in Sichuan Province. The empirical analysis showed that RCR has a significant positive effect on the choice of clean cooking fuels. We also found that RCR makes farmer households shift from using non-clean energy to clean energy for cooking by increasing both their total income and the cost of collecting and storing traditional fuels. Peer effects also motivate households to use clean cooking fuels. Further analysis indicates that an increase in the expenditure on clean energy due to RCR does not increase the farmer households' living burden, since the increase in the total income caused by RCR is much greater. Considering the accessibility and affordability of clean energy, the RCR policy could improve the standards of living among rural residents and synergistically promote energy transition in rural China. |
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