Liu Ziming, Li Jia, Rommel Jens, Feng Shuyi
School of Social and Public Administration, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, PR China.
Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Energy Econ. 2020 Jun;89:104811. doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104811. Epub 2020 Jun 3.
This study investigated the impact of cooking fuel choice on the health of elderly people, as measured by activities of daily living, using micro survey data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2015. In contrast to previous studies, our focus on activities of daily living allows for a more comprehensive analysis of health outcomes than diagnoses or doctor visits. Propensity score matching and an endogenous switching regression model were used to address potential selection biases. We found a strong and positive effect of using non-solid cooking fuels on an individual's ability to cope with daily activities, with substantially greater effects on female and older respondents. Our results highlight the need to support energy transition in rural households to non-solid fuels for cooking. We also discuss potential policies to facilitate energy transition in rural China.
本研究利用中国健康与养老追踪调查2015年的微观调查数据，通过日常生活活动来衡量烹饪燃料选择对老年人健康的影响。与以往研究不同，我们关注日常生活活动，这使得对健康结果的分析比诊断或就医更为全面。倾向得分匹配法和内生转换回归模型被用于解决潜在的选择偏差问题。我们发现，使用非固体烹饪燃料对个人应对日常活动的能力有强烈的积极影响，对女性和年长受访者的影响更大。我们的研究结果凸显了支持农村家庭向非固体燃料烹饪进行能源转型的必要性。我们还讨论了促进中国农村能源转型的潜在政策。
