Does internet use promote clean energy use for cooking by women-headed rural households in China?

Aqian Yan, Xiaofeng Luo, Junbiao Zhang and Lin Tang

Utilities Policy, 2024, vol. 86, issue C

Abstract: Using the China Family Panel Studies, this study examined the effect of internet use on women-headed rural households' clean energy use with the Probit model and examined the mechanism of action of this effect. The results found that women-headed rural households were more likely to use clean energy than male-headed households. Furthermore, internet access greatly facilitated women-headed rural household use of clean energy. The mechanism analysis found that internet use expands residents' access to information, engages participation in off-farm employment, enhances the frequency of social interaction, and thus leads to clean energy use in women-headed rural households.

Keywords: Rural women's; Internet use; Clean energy use for cooking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2023.101703

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