健康、非农就业与农户家庭清洁能源使用--基于华中三省的调研数据

Health, Non-farm Employment and Clean Energy Use in Rural Households Based on Data from Three Provinces in the Central Part of China

基于湖北、湖南、河南3省农户微观调研数据,利用条件混合过程估计法,探讨健康、非农就业对农户家庭清洁能源使用强度的影响。研究发现,健康状况较差或存在非农就业行为的农户,更加倾向于使用清洁能源,但由于受到制度和市场约束,健康状况与非农就业的交互作用并不显著。进一步的异质性分析表明,健康对农户家庭清洁能源使用的影响不因年龄、收入、生态环境认知而变化,非农就业的影响则表现出显著差异:中青年、低收入、高生态环境认知组更容易受到非农就业的影响而具有更高的清洁能源使用强度。由此,为实现农村家庭能源使用结构的升级,政府在加强农村卫生健康事业发展的同时,还需加强有关清洁能源知识的宣传教育,破除农村居民参与非农就业的制度和市场阻碍,进而推进健康中国战略和清洁能源优先发展战略的协同发展。

Based on the household survey data from Hubei,Hunan and Henan provinces in the central part of China,this paper examines the impacts of farmers’health and non-farm employment on their use intensity of clean energy.Conditional mixed process(CMP)is employed.Results show that farmers with poor health or non-farm employment are more likely to use clean energy.Because of the institutional and market constraints,the interaction effect between health status and non-agricultural employment on clean energy use intensity is not statistically significant.Heterogeneity analysis shows that age,income,and the perception of ecological environment do not influence the impact of health status on the use of clean energy.Whereas,young and middle-aged farmers,farmers with low income or farmers with strong perception of ecological environment are influenced by non-agricultural employment and are more likely to use clean energy intensively.Therefore,to upgrade the energy use structure of rural households,the government should improve rural health services,strengthen the promotion of knowledge of clean energy in rural areas,and help to eliminate the system and market obstacles to more rural residents’participation in non-agricultural employment.This can help to enhance the whole nation’s health and to promote Clean Energy Priority Development Strategy.