How Two-Child Policy Affects China's Energy Consumption: The Mediating Role of Lifestyle.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Existing literature believed that the birth control policy affects energy consumption through the change in population size, but ignored the changes in people's lifestyle. This may mislead the government's policy-making about population and energy consumption.

Method

This article proposed a Population-Lifestyle-Energy (PLE) model to provide new insights into how birth control policy affects energy consumption if the changes in people's lifestyle are considered. The ProFamy software is used to forecast the changes in demographic characteristics. The methods of regression analysis and Input-Output Analysis are used to predict the impacts of lifestyle changes on energy consumption.

Results

We find that China's two-child policy will result in the total energy c

SUBMITTER: Chen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9019122 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature