Environmental Effect Evaluation: A Quantile-Type Path-Modeling Approach

Hao Cheng ()
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Hao Cheng: National Academy of Innovation Strategy, China Association for Science and Technology, Beijing 100038, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 5, 1-21

Abstract: The environment is a key element that affects many aspects of our society, including the economy, education and talents. In this article, the main purpose is to provide statistical models, algorithms and quantitative evidence regarding environmental effect evaluation (EEE). To accomplish this investigation, I first establish a theoretical EEE model and then apply a quantile-type path-modeling algorithm in the developed EEE model at different quantile levels. In the real-data analysis, this article investigates hypotheses regarding this theoretical EEE model and illustrates the statistical performances of quantile-type path-modeling EEE estimators through bootstraps. The results mainly illustrate that the environment has indispensable impacts on the economy, education and science and technology talent directly and has indirect effects on scientific infrastructure and science and technology output. Compared with the existing classical path-modeling algorithm, quantile-type path-modeling EEE estimators make full use of quantile regression and then overcome the classical exploration of only average effects. Both the quantile-type EEE model and quantile-type path-modeling algorithm capture changes in the relations among constructs and between the constructs and observed variables, and this helps to analyze the entire distribution of the outcome variables in this EEE model.

Keywords: environmental effects; quantile regression; path modeling; model assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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