報告時間：2023年6月9日（星期五）15:00
報告地點：翡翠湖校區科教樓B座1004室
報 告 人：李江龍 教授
工作單位：西安交通大學
舉辦單位：經濟學院
報告簡介：
This paper estimates the causal effect of income change on reducing energy poverty by exploiting age-based eligibility for China’s New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) through a regression discontinuity (RD) design. More than one billion people worldwide live in energy poverty, and the situation is even more difficult in developing world. It is an important development challenge to reduce energy poverty, which could be further associated with health outcome, labor productivity, and educational achievements. While public policies that increase income for poor households are the most direct ways to reduce energy poverty, the reverse causality makes establishing a convincing causal link between income and energy poverty challenging. Using the quasi-experimental variation in income induced by NRPS, this paper addresses the endogeneity of income and examines the impact of exogenous sharp changes in income on energy consumption behaviors. The findings indicate substantial increases in modern energy consumption and sizable reductions in solid fuels (e.g., straw and fuelwood), suggesting that “windfall income” by pension coverage alleviates energy poverty. Although individuals could anticipate the income shocks by pension coverage, the evidence suggests that they do not engage in anticipatory responses to smooth their consumption. Further evidence shows that liquidity constraints may be the underlying mechanism for the lack of anticipatory responses in household energy consumption. Besides reducing energy poverty, the results demonstrate that pension coverage leads to a decrease in elderly labor supply, an increase in subjective health and life satisfaction, and an increase in non-energy consumption, all of which are positively associated with the well-beings of senior citizens. We anticipate that the findings of this paper in the context of China may be extended to developing world which has been expected to set up targeted measures to tackle energy poverty in upcoming decades.
報告人簡介：
李江龍，西安交通大學經濟與金融學院教授，博士生導師，入選國家級青年人才計劃，研究方向為能源環境經濟與管理、產業組織。兼任哈佛大學客座研究員、中國人文社會科學期刊評價專家委員會委員、《西安交通大學學報（社科版）》編委、《當代經濟科學》青年編委以及多個國際期刊（青年）編委。學術成果發表于《中國社會科學》、《經濟研究》、《金融研究》、World Development、Energy Economics、China Economic Review、Economics of Transition等期刊，主持國家社會科學基金重大項目和重點項目、國家自然科學基金面上項目和青年項目、教育部人文社會科學基金等多項課題。研究成果獲國家能源局“能源軟科學優秀成果獎”、福建省“社會科學優秀成果獎（一等獎）”、陜西省“高等學校人文社會科學研究優秀成果獎（一等獎）”等獎項。
