STIRPAT analysis

Brantley Liddle and Nicolas Schneider

Chapter 109 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Energy Economics, 2025, pp 422-424 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) framework has become popular for analyzing both energy consumption and carbon emissions from fossil fuel use. While the approach allows the population effect to be other than unity, evidence and logic suggests that aggregate population is best thought of as a scaling factor. However, the population shares of young adults and retired aged have been linked to certain environmental impacts. We defer to economics-based models to uncover the influence of affluence or GDP per capita. Thus, we report the findings for the T or technology/intensity variables. Urbanization is the most utilized variable; however, results across the many studies are not uniform. Similarly, conflicting results were produced for industry and service sector GDP shares and for imports and exports GDP shares.

Keywords: STIRPAT; T-Term; Population; Age Structure; Urbanization; Industry GDP Share (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035310364
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