The Impact Of Family Intergenerational Relationship On Carbon Emissions Of Living Energy Consumption

In China’s energy consumption structure,the family is already the second largest energy consumer after the industrial sector,of which the intergenerational relationship of households has an important impact on the carbon emissions of residents’ consumption.Due to the different birth backgrounds and growth environments of family members in different generational relationships,the consumption habits and consumption concepts of people in different eras are also quite different,and the energy consumption behavior they produce when they live together will affect each other.Therefore,the study of intergenerational relationships on the carbon emissions of residents’ energy consumption is of great significance to reveal the carbon emission laws of family life and then formulate relevant carbon emission reduction control measures.This study adopts data information from the China Household Tracking Survey(CFPS)from 2010 to 2018,combines the carbon emission coefficient method and the input-output method to estimate the carbon emissions of each sample household consumption,and constructs a panel threshold model and a panel quantile model to study the influence of family intergenerational relationship on the carbon emissions of household energy consumption based on the two-way three-phase generation overlap theory,and the results find that:(1)The juvenile dependency ratio is positively correlated with fertility rate and residential consumption rate;the impact of small family size on total residential energy consumption is not reduced,and all types of indirect consumption carbon emissions of youth-type family structure are higher than those of old-type families.There are significant differences between different household age structures for different types of service consumption;food,household equipment and services,and housing are the main categories affecting the carbon emissions of household indirect consumption.Elderly-type households spend more carbon emissions on consumption of medical services than youth-type households,and youth-type households spend more carbon emissions on consumption of cultural,educational and recreational categories than elderly-type households.(2)Indirect consumption carbon emissions of "two-generation households" and "three-generation households" show a similar trend of increasing year by year.The more intergenerational relationships within a household,the greater the increase in direct consumption carbon emissions;however,the indirect consumption carbon emissions of "four generations in a row" households are lower than those of second-and third-generation households.(3)When the degree of intergenerational transfer is low,the intergenerational number of households has a significant inhibitory effect at low carbon emission levels,and the inhibitory effect gradually changes to a facilitative effect as the carbon emission level increases.When the degree of intergenerational transfer is high,the intergenerational number of households has a significant promoting effect at all carbon emission levels.The regression coefficient becomes smaller as the carbon emission level increases.The inhibitory effect of the older share is larger than that of the younger share,and the trend of the older share on household indirect consumption carbon emissions is progressive,while the trend of the younger share on household indirect consumption carbon emissions is fluctuating.At the degree of intergenerational shift at the middle level and below,household consumption and urban-rural differences have a significant contribution to household indirect consumption carbon emissions.The variables that significantly contribute to household indirect consumption carbon emissions at the level of intergenerational transfer above the middle tier are the number of intergenerational family relationships,the proportion of children and the area of house use,respectively.Based on the above findings,countermeasures are suggested for the energy saving and emission reduction routes of different generational types of households in terms of the government’s resource allocation function,income redistribution function and regulatory function.The findings of the study help policy makers to gain insight into the impact of household generational structure on carbon emissions from residential consumption,and provide reference suggestions for formulating carbon emission reduction control countermeasures for various types of household generational structures.