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ENERGY ECONOMICS
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages 49-59Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2017.05.016
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Energy consumption; Human capital; Panel data; China
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This article investigates the dynamic relationship between human capital and energy consumption using Chinese provincial data over the period 1990-2010. Considering for cross-sectional dependence and parameter heterogeneity across space and over time, we identify a significant and negative human capital-energy consumption relationship in China. Specifically, we find that a 1% increase in human capital reduces energy consumption by a range between 0.18% and 0.45%. Furthermore, this negative relationship can be attributed to stronger accumulation of post-school human capital in eastern China. This finding suggests that energy conservation in China could be achieved by improving, post-school human-capital components such as on-the-job training, experience and learning-by-doing. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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