近日，我院徐阳老师与中南财经政法大学研究生相文斌、杜鹏教授与曹亮教授的合作论文在China Economic Review正式发表。
题目：The unintended consequence of human capital intensity on energy intensity: Evidence from China（人力资本密集度对能源强度的意外影响——来自中国的证据）
摘要：Human capital is an essential determinant of economic growth. Exploiting the exogenous policy of university expansion in China as a quasi-experiment, this paper investigates the unintended impact of human capital intensity on energy intensity at the firm level using a difference-in-differences strategy. We find that the increase in human capital intensity reduces firms' energy intensity, thus improving energy efficiency. We find that more white-collar jobs and potential skill upgrades are the main drivers of reduced energy intensity. Moreover, we find that the impact on energy intensity is larger for private firms, light industry firms and firms in non-capital cities. Our findings provide an unintended but important consequence of human capital improvement through the lens of energy consumption. （人力资本是经济增长的重要决定因素。本文将中国高校扩招这一外生政策作为准实验，采用双重差分法从企业层面考察人力资本密集度对能源强度的意外影响。研究发现，人力资本密集度的提升降低了企业能源强度，进而改善了能源利用效率。其中，白领岗位增加与潜在技能升级是驱动能源强度下降的主要因素。此外，研究还发现该影响在私营企业、轻工业企业及非省会城市企业中更为显著。本研究从能源消费视角揭示了人力资本提升带来的意外但重要的政策后果。）
作者介绍：
徐阳，武汉大学经济学博士、湖北经济学院财政与公共管理学院专任教师，主要研究方向为财税政策、国际贸易与环境经济，近年来在《管理世界》《国际经贸探索》《宏观经济研究》《Ecological Economics》《China Economic Review》等中英文期刊发表多篇论文。