Household fuel choice in urban China: evidence from panel data

Zhang, Xiao Bing; Hassen, Sied

doi:10.1017/s1355770x17000092

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“…Over the last 30 years, a number of studies have investigated the determinants of uptake and sustained use of clean cooking fuels and technologies in LMICs. A consistent finding from this work is that socio-economic factors such as educational attainment and wealth are important in transitioning to clean cooking [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. The latter is in accordance with the "energy ladder" hypothesis, which suggests that with rising affluence, households will transition from polluting fuels to using cleaner, more modern ones.…”

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Drivers of the Adoption and Exclusive Use of Clean Fuel for Cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learnings and Policy Considerations from Cameroon

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Ronzi

Ngahane

et al. 2020

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Household air pollution (HAP) caused by the combustion of solid fuels for cooking and heating is responsible for almost 5% of the global burden of disease. In response, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended the urgent need to scale the adoption of clean fuels, such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). To understand the drivers of the adoption and exclusive use of LPG for cooking, we analysed representative survey data from 3343 peri-urban and rural households in Southwest Cameroon. Surveys used standardised tools to collect information on fuel use, socio-demographic and household characteristics and use of LPG for clean cooking. Most households reported LPG to be clean (95%) and efficient (88%), but many also perceived it to be expensive (69%) and unsafe (64%). Positive perceptions about LPG’s safety (OR = 2.49, 95% CI = 2.04, 3.05), cooking speed (OR = 4.31, 95% CI = 2.62, 7.10), affordability (OR = 1.7, 95% CI = 1.38, 2.09), availability (OR = 2.17, 95% CI = 1.72, 2.73), and its ability to cook most dishes (OR = 3.79, 95% CI = 2.87, 5.01), were significantly associated with exclusive LPG use. Socio-economic status (higher education) and household wealth (higher income) were also associated with a greater likelihood of LPG adoption. Effective strategies to raise awareness around safe use of LPG and interventions to address financial barriers are needed to scale wider adoption and sustained use of LPG for clean cooking, displacing reliance on polluting solid fuels.

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Drivers of the Adoption and Exclusive Use of Clean Fuel for Cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learnings and Policy Considerations from Cameroon

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Ronzi

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“…There are relatively high implicit discount rates associated with electricity and oil based heating systems compared to district heating, geothermal or wood-based systems. Fuel prices are certainly important considerations in household fuel choice decisions in developing countries (Alem et al, 2016;Mensah and Adu, 2015;Zhang and Hassen, 2017) but there is mixed evidence in developed countries. In the stated-preference studies fuel prices have a significant impact (Rouvinen and Matero, 2013;Scarpa and Willis, 2010) but only a small number of other empirical studies include fuel prices as a potential determinant of fuel choice.…”

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“…As households will continue to use traditional fuels such as firewood along with modern fuels, switching back in response to relative prices and other factors (Wickramasinghe, 2011;Van der Kroon et al, 2013) some have argued that a multiple fuel model is more appropriate (Masera et al, 2000). Among the key determinants of fuel choice among households in developing countries are fuel prices, income, and education, as well as security of supply considerations for fuels such as gas and electricity (Alem et al, 2016;Behera et al, 2016;Mensah and Adu, 2015;Zhang and Hassen, 2017).…”

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Exploring the spatial and temporal determinants of gas central heating adoption

McCoy

Curtis

2018

Resource and Energy Economics

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a b s t r a c tIn order to better understand the potential for both policy and technological improvements to aid carbon abatement, long-term historical information on the time-path of transition from more traditional to cleaner fuels is useful. This is a relatively understudied element of the fuel switching literature in both developed and emerging economies. This research adds to this literature by examining the adoption time-path of network gas as a heating fuel. We merge a unique dataset on gas network roll-out over time, with other geo-coded data and employ an instrumental variables technique in order to simultaneously model supply and demand. Results indicate a non-linear relationship between the proportion of households using gas as their primary means of central heating and the length of time the network has been in place in each area. Proximity to the gas network, peat bogs, and areas which have banned the consumption of bituminous coal also affect gas connections. Variations in socioeconomic and dwelling characteristics at area level can also help explain connections to the gas network. A better understanding of this variation is crucial in designing targeted policies and can aid network expansion decisions.

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“…To the best of our knowledge this is the first-time household fuel choices have been explicitly modelled in this manner in Tanzania using a nationally representative panel survey. Whilst some authors, such as Mekonnen and Köhlin (2009) and Alem et al (2016) in Ethiopia and Zhang and Hassen (2017) in urban China, have recently made use of panel data in approaching the modelling of household fuel choices, the majority of past empirical studies on this subject have been reliant on cross-sectional data. One short-coming of multinomial logit models is that they assume a series of discrete choices between the use of various fuels, thus not explicitly being able to account for stacking or fuel-mixing behaviour if mixing is not one of the categories of the dependent variables.…”

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Stacking up the ladder: A panel data analysis of Tanzanian household energy choices

2019

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Energy-use statistics in Tanzania reflect the country's low level of industrialization and development. In 2016, only 16.9% of rural and 65.3% of urban inhabitants in mainland Tanzania were connected to some form of electricity. We use a nationally representative three-wave panel dataset (2008-2013) to contribute to the literature on household energy use decisions in Tanzania in the context of the stacking and energy ladder hypotheses. We firstly adopt a panel multinomial-logit approach to model the determinants of household cooking-and lighting-fuel choices. Secondly, we focus explicitly on energy stacking behaviour, proposing various ways of measuring what is inferred when stacking behaviour is thought of in the context of the energy transition and presenting household level correlates of energy stacking behaviour. Thirdly, since fuel uses have gender-differentiated impacts, we investigate women's bargaining power in the decision-making process of household fuel choices. We find that whilst higher household incomes are strongly associated with a transition towards the adoption of more modern fuels, especially lighting fuels, this transition takes place in a context of significant fuel stacking. In Tanzania, government policy has been aimed mostly at connecting households to the electric grid. However, the public health, environmental and social benefits of access to modern energy sources are likely to be diminished in a context of significant fuel stacking. Lastly, we present evidence that the educational attainment of women in the household is an important aspect of household fuel choices.

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Household fuel choice in urban China: evidence from panel data

Cited by 39 publications

References 40 publications

Drivers of the Adoption and Exclusive Use of Clean Fuel for Cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learnings and Policy Considerations from Cameroon

Drivers of the Adoption and Exclusive Use of Clean Fuel for Cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learnings and Policy Considerations from Cameroon

Exploring the spatial and temporal determinants of gas central heating adoption

Stacking up the ladder: A panel data analysis of Tanzanian household energy choices

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