School of Economics and Management, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China.
Ji Luan Academy, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 2;20(3):2677. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20032677.
Regional imbalance is a typical feature of economic and social development in China, and place-based policies aimed at promoting balanced regional development may bring challenges to low-carbon goals. This study uses the panel data of China's prefecture-level cities from 2003 to 2019 to investigate the impact of place-based policies on carbon emission efficiency using a quasi-experimental method. Results indicate that place-based policies significantly reduce the regional total-factor carbon emission efficiency. The difference-in-differences method based on propensity score matching and entropy balancing matching consistently supports the finding that carbon emission efficiency decreases after policy intervention. Place-based policies lead to a significant decline in capital allocation efficiency but have an insignificant impact on labor allocation efficiency. Moreover, place-based policies result in the expansion of carbon-intensive industries but hinder the progress of the financial technology of financial institutions. Nevertheless, place-based policies do not lead to the deterioration of environmental quality. Among the advantages of these policies are the significant promotion of regional digitization and increased fiscal expenditure on science and technology. Political promotion, carbon regulation, trade policies, and other conditional factors may be optimally designed to promote low-carbon development in the old revolutionary areas.
区域不平衡是中国经济社会发展的典型特征，旨在促进区域均衡发展的基于地点的政策可能给低碳目标带来挑战。本研究使用中国 2003 年至 2019 年的地级市面板数据，采用准实验方法考察了基于地点的政策对碳排放效率的影响。结果表明，基于地点的政策显著降低了区域全要素碳排放效率。基于倾向得分匹配和熵平衡匹配的双重差分法一致支持政策干预后碳排放效率下降的结论。基于地点的政策导致资本配置效率显著下降，但对劳动力配置效率影响不大。此外，基于地点的政策导致碳密集型产业扩张，但阻碍了金融机构金融科技的进步。然而，基于地点的政策并没有导致环境质量恶化。这些政策的优势包括显著促进了区域数字化和增加了财政科技支出。可以对政治晋升、碳监管、贸易政策等条件因素进行优化设计，以促进老区的低碳发展。
