Research Article
Income Gap and Carbon Emissions: Data from China's City Level
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.1-9-2023.2338713, author={Hongzhen Lei and Linjie Zhang}, title={Income Gap and Carbon Emissions: Data from China's City Level}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Public Management, Digital Economy and Internet Technology, ICPDI 2023, September 1--3, 2023, Chongqing, China}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICPDI}, year={2023}, month={11}, keywords={income inequality; carbon emissions; environmental pollution}, doi={10.4108/eai.1-9-2023.2338713} }- Hongzhen Lei
Linjie Zhang
Year: 2023
Income Gap and Carbon Emissions: Data from China's City Level
ICPDI
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.1-9-2023.2338713
Abstract
With the rapid advancement of industrialization and urbanization in China, carbon emissions and income inequality have become two major challenges that need to be addressed urgently.Although there have been many studies on the causal relationship and mechanism of action between the two, but the conclusion is not uniform, leaving room for further exploration of this issue; In addition，most of studies select provincial panel data on this issue of China, which may lead to biased research results. This paper studies the panel data of 203 cities in China from 2019 to 2019 at the municipal level, and examines the impact of income inequality on carbon emissions. Through empirical test,it is found that income inequality has a negative impact on carbon emissions, and the per capita carbon emissions and regional carbon emission intensity increase with the increase of income inequality. Accordingly, this study puts forward policy recommendations for China to achieve dual carbon goals and common prosperity.