The role of place-based policies on carbon emission: A quasi-natural experiment from China's old revolutionary development program

被引：3
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作者：
Pan, Dan [1 ]
Chen, Yiqun [1 ]
Kong, Fanbin [2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ]
机构：
[1] Jiangxi Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Econ, Nanchang 330013, Jiangxi, Peoples R China
[2] Zhejiang A&F Univ, Sch Econ & Management, Hangzhou 311330, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
[3] Zhejiang A&F Univ, Inst Ecol Civilizat, Hangzhou 311330, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
[4] Zhejiang A&F Univ, Inst Carbon Neutral, Hangzhou 311330, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
[5] Nanjing Forestry Univ, Sch Econ Management, Nanjing 210037, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
来源：
HELIYON | 2023年 / 9卷 / 05期
基金：
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词：
Place-based policies; Carbon emission; China's old revolutionary development; program; Difference-in-difference method; GROWTH; IMPACT;
D O I：
10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15964
中图分类号：
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
The effectiveness of place-based policies on carbon emission is controversial, and particularly the mechanism behind its effectiveness is unknown. We treat China's Old Revolutionary Development Program (ORDP)- a large-scale and novel type of place-based policy targeted at undeveloped regions, as a natural experiment to estimate ORDP's impact on carbon emission. Employing the panel data of 110 prefecture-level cities in China from 2010 to 2019, we perform a time-varying difference-in-differences (DID) study and discover that ORDP leads to an average of 26.7% increase in carbon emission and this effect takes a period to emerge and is not sustainable in the long term. Three mechanisms that may result in such impact are that ORDP improves economic development, changes industrial structure, and decreases technological progress. Further heterogeneity analysis indicates that ORDP results in a greater increased impact on carbon emission in old revolutionary cities that are located in western China compared to those located in central and eastern China.
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