The Impact of Off-Farm Employment on C Rural Households'Clean Energy Consumption and Its Sustainability:An Example of Cooking Clean Energy Consumption
Upgrading rural households'domestic energy use is the key to realizing the rural energy transition.Using nationally representative household panel data from the China Family Panel Studies(CFPS),this paper examines the impact of off-farm employment on the clean energy consumption for cooking by rural households using the multi-dimensional fixed-effects model and instrumental variable approach,etc.The results show that off-farm employment has a facilitating effect on the consumption of clean energy for cooking by rural households,and this effect is mainly achieved by increasing the per capita net income of households and reducing the amount of available labor.The results of heterogeneity analysis show that the effect of off-farm employment on clean energy consumption for cooking in rural households is more significant in the formal employment group,the male-only non-farm employment group,the male and female off-farm employment group,and the areas with high level of economic development This paper further analyses the impact of off-farm employment on the sustainability of clean energy consumption for cooking by rural households,and finds that,all else being equal,off-farm employment increases the probability of sustained use of clean energy for cooking by rural households,and that the marginal impact of non-farm employment on the sustainability of clean energy consumption for cooking by rural households gradually increases as income grows.Currently,it is supposed to create and provide off-farm employment opportunities on a sustained basis in order to facilitate the rural energy transition.
Off-Farm EmploymentClean Energy Consumption for CookingEnergy Consumption SustainabilityRural Energy Transition
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