Impact of Graduate Student Expansion and Innovative Human Capital on Green Total Factor Productivity

Yao, Hao; Gu, Xiulin; Qian, Yu

doi:10.3390/su15021721

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“…The results of intermediate effect test confirm that human capital, as an essential input factor in endogenous economic growth theory, helps to improve the efficiency of resource usage [82]. This phenomenon is especially prominent in China, since the expansion of graduate enrollment has greatly contributed to the cultivation of high-level talents, providing great support for the development of a green economy [83]. It is also confirmed that human capital in China has spatial agglomeration and spillover effects, which makes production greener and is thus conducive to a green economy [84].…”

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confidence: 87%

Does AI Application Matter in Promoting Carbon Productivity? Fresh Evidence from 30 Provinces in China

Feng,

Liu

2023

Sustainability

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is an important force leading to a new round of scientific and technological revolution, as well as promoting the realization of the dual carbon goals of China. Determining how to take advantage of AI during the green industrial transformation and propelling participation in global value chains are of great importance to China. In this paper, we carefully study the influencing mechanism. The Batik Variable Method is then applied to measure robot penetration in the industries across 30 provinces in China from 2010 to 2019. Furthermore, intermediate and threshold effect models are constructed using three crucial variables. The estimates reveal critical findings: firstly, the application of AI has a significant positive effect on carbon productivity, and this conclusion is still valid after a series of robustness tests. Secondly, a heterogeneity test shows that, compared with the central and western regions, AI application in the east has a stronger and more significant effect on carbon productivity over time. Thirdly, the optimization of human capital and improvement of innovation level both play partial mediating roles in this process, and manufacturing agglomeration has a nonlinear adjustment effect on the positive relationship between AI application and carbon productivity. The conclusions of this study provide references for further optimizing and expanding the application scenarios of AI, thereby contributing to high-quality economic development in China.

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confidence: 87%

Does AI Application Matter in Promoting Carbon Productivity? Fresh Evidence from 30 Provinces in China

Feng,

Liu

2023

Sustainability

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“…When carbon emissions are taken into account, the GTFP of maize mostly reflects how much the existing inputs of production materials contribute to the output. Based on the current maize production situation in China and the research results of other scholars Xing et al, 2023;Yao et al, 2023), the following indicators were chosen as the factors that affect maize' s GTFP.…”

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Sustainable Food Consumption and Production in the 21st Century

Razzaq,

Asad Ur Rehman Naseer,

Farrukh

2024

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Frontiers is more than just an open access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. Frontiers journal seriesThe Frontiers journal series is a multi-tier and interdisciplinary set of openaccess, online journals, promising a paradigm shift from the current review, selection and dissemination processes in academic publishing. All Frontiers journals are driven by researchers for researchers; therefore, they constitute a service to the scholarly community. At the same time, the Frontiers journal series operates on a revolutionary invention, the tiered publishing system, initially addressing specific communities of scholars, and gradually climbing up to broader public understanding, thus serving the interests of the lay society, too. Dedication to qualityEach Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public -and shape society; therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews. Frontiers revolutionizes research publishing by freely delivering the most outstanding research, evaluated with no bias from both the academic and social point of view. By applying the most advanced information technologies, Frontiers is catapulting scholarly publishing into a new generation. What are Frontiers Research Topics?Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers journals series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area.

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“…Benhabib and Spiegel found that total factor productivity depends on human capital accumulation [21]. Yao et al found that the increase in innovative human capital significantly contributes to green TFP, and that the effect on green TFP tends to have a decreasing marginal effect [22].…”

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Internet Development and Green Total Factor Productivity: New Evidence of Mediation and Threshold Effects

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The strategy of sustainable development is not only a long-term plan for the survival and development of the Chinese nation, but also an inevitable requirement for the coordinated economic and social development of all countries in the world. With the rapid development of new-generation information technology, the Internet may play an even more important role in the implementation of sustainable development strategies. Using China’s interprovincial panel data from 2011 to 2020, this paper examines the impact of internet development on green total factor productivity (GTFP) and its mechanism of action using a two-way fixed-effects panel model, a mediation effects model and a threshold effects model. The results show that, firstly, internet development can significantly promote the increase in GTFP, and this conclusion still holds after several robustness tests; secondly, internet development can indirectly promote GTFP through optimizing industrial structure, human capital structure and improving technological innovation; thirdly, based on a single threshold effect of advanced industrial structure, advanced human capital and internet development, the impact of the Internet on GTFP is found to be nonlinear. Finally, our study provides policy recommendations for the promotion of green total factor productivity in China.

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Impact of Graduate Student Expansion and Innovative Human Capital on Green Total Factor Productivity

Cited by 9 publications

References 50 publications

Does AI Application Matter in Promoting Carbon Productivity? Fresh Evidence from 30 Provinces in China

Does AI Application Matter in Promoting Carbon Productivity? Fresh Evidence from 30 Provinces in China

Sustainable Food Consumption and Production in the 21st Century

Internet Development and Green Total Factor Productivity: New Evidence of Mediation and Threshold Effects

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