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Replication Data for: Is the price elasticity of demand for coal in China increasing

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Title Replication Data for: Is the price elasticity of demand for coal in China increasing
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FFKURT
 
Creator Paul J.Burke
Hua Liao
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description China's residential sector has experienced rapid electrification and gasification. Among rural households, however, coal still accounts for a large share of energy use, especially in the north. Use of coal for cooking and heating brings large health and pollution risks. From a theoretical viewpoint, economic tools such as taxes and subsidies have the potential to play a crucial role in addressing this issue. In this paper, a provincial-level dataset is used to estimate the price and income elasticities of aggregate coal demand by rural households. We find that coal is a non-Giffen inferior good for the rural household sector. This means that future income growth may help to induce switching from coal. Demand is becoming more price elastic as rural incomes grow. We also find that rural residential coal demand is more price- and income-responsive in the south than the north, perhaps because of fewer substitution options in the north. Our results provide benchmarks and parameters for policy simulation research.


Provincial panel data for 1998–2012.

Variables:

Ln Coal consumption
Ln Real coal price index
Ln Real coal price level
Ln GDP
Secondary share of economy (%)
State-owned share of total revenue from industrial enterprises (%)
Five-year energy conservation assignments to industry (%)
Post-2005 retired thermal power capacity (%)
Ln Real gasoline price
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Date 2018-12-28
 
Contributor Liao, Hua