Can Low Carbon City Building Significantly Attract Population Inflow?——Empirical Evidence from China's Low Carbon City Pilot Efforts
Low-carbon city construction is an important initiative to promote human-centered new urbanization in China in the new era.On the basis of explaining the theoretical mechanism,this paper constructs a multi-period double-difference model to empirically test the specific impact of low-carbon city construction on population mobility,using real-world evidence of China's 284 prefectural-level cities in the period 2003-2019.The results of the study show that:low-carbon city construction in general produces a significant population attraction effect,and the conclusion remains robust after the multi-dimensional test;on the analysis of heterogeneity,the population attraction effect produced by low-carbon city construction is more prominent in coastal cities,lighter and non-resource cities;the results of the test of the mechanism of action show that the pollution abatement effect and the employment substitution effect are the important realization paths of the population inflow attracted by the construction of low-carbon cities,and the pollution abatement effect and the employment substitution effect are the important realization paths of the population inflow attracted by the construction of low-carbon cities.The results of the mechanism test show that the pollution reduction effect and employment substitution effect are important realization paths of low-carbon city construction to attract population inflow,and the pollution reduction effect has an inverted N-shape relationship with population flow,the employment substitution effect has a U-shape relationship with population flow;this study evaluates the population attraction effect generated by low-carbon city construction from the pilot low-carbon city policy,which provides a useful reference to further explore the construction strategy of low-carbon cities.
population mobilitylow carbon city constructionlow carbon city pilot workmulti-period double difference model
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