Environmental regulation, energy poverty and social welfare: Based on China's provincial panel data
Alleviating energy poverty, improving the ecological environment, and promoting social welfare have become important issues in society. By taking panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2003 to 2020 as the research object, fixed effects models and system-GMM models are adopted, and the impacts of...
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| description | Alleviating energy poverty, improving the ecological environment, and promoting social welfare have become important issues in society. By taking panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2003 to 2020 as the research object, fixed effects models and system-GMM models are adopted, and the impacts of environmental regulations on social welfare and the moderating effect of energy poverty are studied in this paper. The results show that enhanced environmental regulation has a significant negative impact on social welfare, while flexible environmental regulation has the opposite, especially in energy poverty regions. Moreover, energy poverty has a significant negative impact on social welfare, and energy poverty reduces the consumption capacity of clean energy, which may pollute the environment and damage health, thus reducing social welfare. Additionally, the energy poverty has significant positive moderating effect, that is, energy poverty aggravates the inhibitory effect of enhanced environmental regulation on social welfare, and promotes the impact of flexible environmental regulation on social welfare. Finally, energy poverty varies significantly in different regions, and the energy poverty lines in the eastern, central and western regions, as well as the national are 503.381, 442.758, 359.461 and 444.546, respectively. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a4f8d7ea4da7487aa0d1cd6e9a2f38422024-11-22T07:37:06ZengElsevierEnergy Strategy Reviews2211-467X2024-11-0156101592Environmental regulation, energy poverty and social welfare: Based on China's provincial panel dataJian Tang0Xiaoyue Huang1Hsing Hung Chen2Wangbo Gao3Xia Liu4Zhejiang Baima Lake Laboratory Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, 310051, China; The Institute for Sustainable Development, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, 999078, ChinaThe Institute for Sustainable Development, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, 999078, ChinaSchool of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, 999078, ChinaSchool of Economics, The University of Southampton, Southampton, SO171BJ, United KingdomSchool of Business, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China; Corresponding author.Alleviating energy poverty, improving the ecological environment, and promoting social welfare have become important issues in society. By taking panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2003 to 2020 as the research object, fixed effects models and system-GMM models are adopted, and the impacts of environmental regulations on social welfare and the moderating effect of energy poverty are studied in this paper. The results show that enhanced environmental regulation has a significant negative impact on social welfare, while flexible environmental regulation has the opposite, especially in energy poverty regions. Moreover, energy poverty has a significant negative impact on social welfare, and energy poverty reduces the consumption capacity of clean energy, which may pollute the environment and damage health, thus reducing social welfare. Additionally, the energy poverty has significant positive moderating effect, that is, energy poverty aggravates the inhibitory effect of enhanced environmental regulation on social welfare, and promotes the impact of flexible environmental regulation on social welfare. Finally, energy poverty varies significantly in different regions, and the energy poverty lines in the eastern, central and western regions, as well as the national are 503.381, 442.758, 359.461 and 444.546, respectively.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X24003018Environmental regulationEnergy povertySocial welfarePrincipal components analysisExtended linear expenditure system |
| spellingShingle | Jian Tang Xiaoyue Huang Hsing Hung Chen Wangbo Gao Xia Liu Environmental regulation, energy poverty and social welfare: Based on China's provincial panel data Energy Strategy Reviews Environmental regulation Energy poverty Social welfare Principal components analysis Extended linear expenditure system |
| title | Environmental regulation, energy poverty and social welfare: Based on China's provincial panel data |
| title_full | Environmental regulation, energy poverty and social welfare: Based on China's provincial panel data |
| title_fullStr | Environmental regulation, energy poverty and social welfare: Based on China's provincial panel data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Environmental regulation, energy poverty and social welfare: Based on China's provincial panel data |
| title_short | Environmental regulation, energy poverty and social welfare: Based on China's provincial panel data |
| title_sort | environmental regulation energy poverty and social welfare based on china s provincial panel data |
| topic | Environmental regulation Energy poverty Social welfare Principal components analysis Extended linear expenditure system |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X24003018 |
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