Can Narrowing the Urban-Rural Income Gap from the Perspective of Common Prosperity Help to Reduce Carbon Emissions from Residents'Living Sources
The common prosperity that China is committed to achieving is a multi-level common prosperity based on economic welfare and ecological welfare.Narrowing the income gap between urban and rural areas is a necessary step to improve the economic welfare of the whole people and promote common prosperity,while curbing the carbon emissions of residents'living sources is a necessary step to increase the ecological environment welfare for the dual carbon goal.Using provincial panel data from 2010 to 2020 in China as a sample,a double fixed effect model was adopted and terrain flatness was selected as the instrumental variable to empirically study the impact of urban-rural income gap on carbon emissions of residents'living sources.The empirical results shows that the larger the urban-rural income gap is,the more carbon emissions of residents'living sources are,and this conclusion is still valid under various robustness tests.Heterogeneity analysis shows that the reduction effect of urban-rural income gap on residents'carbon emissions from living sources is more biased towards areas with higher carbon emissions from living sources,more biased towards poor areas,more biasedtowards low-urbanization areas,and morebiasedtowards East China and Northwest China,which provides a basis for local carbon emission reduction policies.The mechanism analysis shows that the urban-rural income gap affects the carbon emissions of residents'living sources by acting on the cleanliness of residents'energy consumption structure.The smaller the urban-rural income gap is,the higher the cleanliness of residents'energy consumption structure is.This paper suggests that in the process of solidly promoting common prosperity in the new era,the urban-rural income gap should be continuously narrowed to help reduce carbon emissions from living sources and achieve the"double carbon"goal.
urban-rural income gapcarbon emissions of residents'living sourcescommon prosperityenergy consumption of residents
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维普
