Cooling China: The Weather Dependence of Air Conditioner Adoption

Maximilian Auffhammer

Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities, 2014, vol. 9, issue 1, 70-84

Abstract: One of the major adaptation mechanisms to climate change is increased demand for cooling via the air conditioning of indoor environments. China¡¯s demand for air conditioners has displayed explosive growth since 1995. This paper provides estimates of the income and short run weather sensitivity of air conditioner adoption across urban areas for 29 Chinese provincial entities. We show that the adoption decision displays significant income and weather sensitivity in the short run, with adoption being higher the year following a hot summer.

Keywords: climate change; air conditioning; weather (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (25)

Downloads: (external link)
http://journal.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/10.3868/s060-003-014-0005-5 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fec:journl:v:9:y:2014:i:1:p:70-84

Access Statistics for this article

Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities is currently edited by LONG Jie

More articles in Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities from Higher Education Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Frank H. Liu ().