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Rural E-Commerce and Agricultural Carbon Emission Reduction: A Quasi-Natural Experiment from China's Rural E-Commerce Demonstration County Program Based on 355 Cities in Ten Years.
- Source :
- Agriculture; Basel; Jan2024, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p75, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Reducing carbon emissions is of paramount importance to the accomplishment of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The effect of rural e-commerce on agricultural carbon emissions (ACEs) is controversial, and particularly the mechanism behind the effect is unknown. To identify the impact of rural e-commerce on agricultural carbon emissions and its mechanisms, we take advantage of China's Rural E-Commerce Demonstration County Program (REDCP) as a quasi-natural experiment and use the multi-period difference-in-difference (DID) model to investigate the relationship between rural e-commerce and agricultural carbon emissions. Our data are based on panel data of 355 prefecture-level cities from 2010 to 2019 in China. We identify that rural e-commerce can reduce agricultural carbon emissions by an average of 14.4%, but this effect is not long-lasting. Mechanism analyses suggest that the reduction effect of rural e-commerce on agricultural carbon emissions is mainly due to fostering agricultural economic growth, increasing the share of low-carbon industry, and improving agricultural total factor productivity (TFP). Further heterogeneity analyses demonstrate that rural e-commerce has better carbon emissions reduction performance in eastern cities as well as in non-major grain-producing cities in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20770472
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Agriculture; Basel
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175049358
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14010075