题目：Cooking Fuel Choices and Subjective Well-being in Rural China

报告人：马旺林 副教授 新西兰林肯大学

主持人：杜立民 教授 浙江大学民营经济研究中心

时间：2022年4月14日（星期四）下午13:30-15:00

地点：腾讯会议（会议ID：934-599-751；本次会议对外开放，请加入会议者将个人姓名备注为真实姓名+单位）

摘要：

This paper examines the impacts of cooking fuel choices on individuals’ subjective well-being, measured by happiness and life satisfaction, using open-access data from the 2016 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey. We analyze the impacts by employing a multivalued treatment effects model that accounts for selectivity bias. Unlike previous studies that consider households’ binary fuel use decisions or specific fuel choices, we capture the households’ fuel-stacking behaviors (using multiple fuels) by classifying cooking fuels into clean fuels, non-clean fuels, and mixed-fuels. The empirical results show that complete energy transition (i.e., switching from either non-clean fuels or mixed fuels to clean fuels) significantly improves individuals’ happiness and life satisfaction. In comparison, incomplete energy transition (i.e., shifting from non-clean fuels to mixed fuels) does not significantly impact individuals’ subjective well-being. A complete energy transition increases people's subjective well-being in the eastern and central parts of China but has no impact on those living in western China. Furthermore, switching from non-clean fuels to clean fuels significantly reduces happiness inequality and life satisfaction inequality. Switching to cleaner fuels also significantly increases individuals’ self-reported health. We recommend that the government in China make concerted efforts to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and clean energy sources and accelerate rural households’ energy transition.

简介：

马旺林，新西兰林肯大学经济学副教授。2016年获得德国基尔大学农业经济学博士。马旺林博士主要从事农业经济学和发展经济学领域的研究工作，已发表论文80多篇，其主要研究成果以第一作者身份发表在《American Journal of Agricultural Economics》、《Journal of Agricultural Economics》、《Energy Economics》和《China Economic Review》等国际期刊。马旺林博士目前担任《Review of Development Economics》和《Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics》期刊的联合主编, 以及《Electronic Commerce Research》等期刊的副主编，同时担任90多个国际期刊的匿名审稿人。

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2022-4-7