Analysis of residents’ health and willingness to pay for environmental protection in China

IF 4.7 2区环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Development Pub Date : 2024-08-10 DOI:10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101048

Haipeng Chen , Jie Zhou , Siyu Peng , Dungang Zang , Martinson Ankrah Twumasi , Qianling Shen

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Abstract

Health and environmental issues have become pressing global problems that affect human society's sustainable development. Residents are not only practitioners but also direct beneficiaries of ecological protection and play a crucial role in maintaining ecological and environmental health. Health, as the basis of residents' behavioral choices, influences residents' behavior toward ecological and environmental protection. This study aims to investigate how health factors profoundly affect residents' willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental protection and reveal the intrinsic connection between health and environmental protection behavior. The 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) data and the ordered probit model were used to determine that improving residents' health greatly increases their willingness to protect the environment and passes a number of tough tests. In addition, the promotion effect of health on residents' WTP for ecological protection is markedly heterogeneous, especially in younger residents who do not have children. Therefore, we suggest to policymakers and national governments a range of countermeasures and suggestions to enhance health education, safeguard public health, and promote ecological protection education.

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中国居民健康状况与环保付费意愿分析

健康和环境问题已成为影响人类社会可持续发展的紧迫的全球性问题。居民不仅是生态保护的实践者，也是生态保护的直接受益者，在维护生态环境健康方面发挥着至关重要的作用。健康作为居民行为选择的基础，影响着居民的生态环境保护行为。本研究旨在探讨健康因素如何深刻影响居民的环境保护支付意愿（WTP），揭示健康与环境保护行为之间的内在联系。利用 2017 年中国家庭金融调查（CHFS）数据和有序 probit 模型，确定改善居民健康状况会大大提高其环境保护意愿，并通过了一系列严苛的检验。此外，健康对居民生态保护 WTP 的促进作用具有明显的异质性，尤其是在没有子女的年轻居民中。因此，我们向决策者和国家政府提出了一系列加强健康教育、保障公众健康、促进生态保护教育的对策和建议。

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Environmental Development Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

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8.40

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74 days

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