Sun Qing, Lu Guang
School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China.
Heliyon. 2023 Jul 3;9(7):e17706. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17706. eCollection 2023 Jul.
The aim of this work is to investigate the different implications in terms of the elderly and child care on household carbon emissions in China. We estimate the effect of family structure on household carbon emissions in the 2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), by means of the STIRPAT model. The results indicate that significant differences exist between the effect of the elderly and child care on each household's carbon emissions. Moreover, there is a negative effect between the elderly and household carbon emissions with an elasticity coefficient of -0.029, and a positive effect between children and household carbon emissions with an elasticity coefficient of 0.008. Interestingly, the elderly and children have an interactive effect on carbon emissions except for housing carbon emissions. To be specific, the elderly and child care have a mutual inhibition effect on the health carbon emissions of household, whereas they have a mutually reinforcing effect on other carbon emissions. Low carbon emissions paths in household should be urgently explored, and deliberate policy action is required to achieve carbon emissions reduction.
这项工作的目的是研究在中国,老年人照料和儿童照料对家庭碳排放的不同影响。我们通过STIRPAT模型,在中国家庭追踪调查(CFPS)2018年的数据中,估计家庭结构对家庭碳排放的影响。结果表明,老年人照料和儿童照料对每户家庭碳排放的影响存在显著差异。此外,老年人照料与家庭碳排放之间存在负向影响,弹性系数为-0.029,儿童照料与家庭碳排放之间存在正向影响,弹性系数为0.008。有趣的是,除住房碳排放外,老年人照料和儿童照料对碳排放有交互作用。具体而言,老年人照料和儿童照料对家庭健康碳排放有相互抑制作用,而对其他碳排放有相互促进作用。应迫切探索家庭低碳排放路径,需要采取审慎的政策行动来实现碳排放减少。