Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 29, Issue 14, Pages 20906-20920Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-17380-y
Keywords
Clean energy use; Cooking fuel; Women's health; PSM-DID
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFC0213603]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71822402, 71934003, 72073054]
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This study analyzes the health inequality in rural China caused by indoor air pollution from traditional energy use, focusing on the effect of clean energy access on women's health outcome. The results show that clean energy applications can significantly improve the health of rural women, with substantial positive effects for specific groups such as middle-aged and older women, illiterate women, and those living in northeastern China. Overall, clean energy plays a crucial role in reducing gender disparities in health inequality.
It is well known that women bear the greatest burden of health, work time, and labor supply due to gender disparity in many developing countries. In this study, we analyze the health inequality in rural China caused by indoor air pollution from traditional energy use. Specifically, we study the effect of clean energy access on woman health outcome by exploiting a nationwide rollout of clean cooking fuel program in 2014. Based on interviews with rural women in 2014 and 2016, this study analyzes the impact of clean energy use on women's health by using the propensity score matching method with the difference-in-differences model (PSM-DID). We also analyze the heterogeneous health effects of clean energy uptake on rural women with different characteristics. The results show that clean energy applications can significantly improve the health of rural women. The positive health effects are substantial for middle-aged and older women, illiterate women, and those women lived in northeastern China. The results highlight the role of clean energy in reducing gender disparities in health inequality.
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