Nexus between income inequality and consumption of renewable energy in India: a nonlinear examination

Rajesh Sharma () and Surendra Singh Rajpurohit ()
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Rajesh Sharma: Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies
Surendra Singh Rajpurohit: Mody University of Science and Technology

Economic Change and Restructuring, 2022, vol. 55, issue 4, No 13, 2337-2358

Abstract: Abstract While the association between income inequality and environmental degradation has been researched extensively by various scholars, the impact of income inequality on the consumption of renewable energy, however, remains unanswered in the existing literature, the reason why the investigation of the same has been attempted through this study. Apart from income inequality, this paper also explores the impact of per capita income, consumption of nonrenewable energy and human capital development on the consumption of renewable energy, using a Nonlinear Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) model on the data pertaining to India for the period 1980–2016. This study concludes that while the increased income inequality results into reduction in the renewable energy consumption, the increased per capita income and human capital development, on the contrary, lead to an increase in the renewable energy consumption. Similarly, the impact of decrease in per capita income on renewable energy consumption was found to be negative and significant. Lastly, the nonrenewable energy consumption, showing the characteristics of a substitute, was found to have an inverse & significant relationship with renewable energy consumption in both upward as well as downward direction.

Keywords: Renewable energy; Income inequality; Human capital development; Nonrenewable energy; NARDL; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 H1 O1 Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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