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ERIC Number: EJ1418553
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-1363-6820
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Do Skills Enable the Reduction of Emissions from Household Energy Use? Findings from a Survey of Households in Rural India
Kristinn Hermannsson; Rosario Scandurra; Supravat Sarangi; Preeti Chaturvedi; Thallada Bhaskar; Ashok Pandey; Bhavya B. Krishna; Steven Gillespie; Jillian Gordon; Ivano Bongiovanni; Ian Watson; Siming You
Journal of Vocational Education and Training, v76 n2 p447-467 2024
We use new survey data from 1,203 households in rural Eastern India to estimate cross-sectional models of overall energy use and embedded emissions. Findings indicate that the primary driver of household energy use is household size and affluence. This is unsurprising and consistent with findings from the engineering literature on energy demand. However, there is also a substantial and significant moderating influence of skills on energy use. For emissions, we observe a bifurcated relationship in line with educational attainment. For those that have completed secondary education or more, skills are negatively associated with energy use and emissions, whereas for those with lesser qualifications more skills are associated with more energy use and emissions. The results are consistent with the environmental Kuznets curve, which implies that a critical level of affluence is required before environmental impacts start lessening. The results also echo a sociological critique of human capital theory - that individual abilities are not productive in and of themselves, but rather in relation to socially determined opportunity structures. Our findings show that this could also hold for greenhouse gas emissions.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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