 Self-aggravation effect of air pollution: Evidence from residential electricity consumption in ChinaFujin Yi, Haijian Ye, Ximing Wu, Y. Yvette Zhang and Fei Jiang Energy Economics, 2020, vol. 86, issue C Abstract: With the deterioration of air quality and increasing awareness of the adverse health impacts of air pollution, more people choose to stay indoors and take up various pollution mitigation measures under heavy air pollution. This study contends that these activities entail extraneous electricity consumption, which in turn further exacerbates air quality. We investigate this self-aggravation of air pollution based on the electricity usage of a panel of Chinese households. Our analyses suggest that Chinese households' electricity consumption tends to increase with the severity of heavy air pollution. Our results are shown to be robust across various model specifications, sample configurations and alternative air quality indicators. We also show that the self-aggravation effects are more pronounced for households (i) located in the northern China; (ii) with high consumption capacity and/or located in urban areas; (iii) with vulnerable members such as elderly or preschoolers. Keywords: Electricity consumption; Air pollution; Self-aggravation; China (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:eneeco:v:86:y:2020:i:c:s0140988320300232 DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104684 Access Statistics for this article Energy Economics is currently edited by R. S. J. Tol, Beng Ang, Lance Bachmeier, Perry Sadorsky, Ugur Soytas and J. P. Weyant More articles in Energy Economics from Elsevier |
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