Table 5 The mediating roles of GTI.

From: The impact of China’s artificial intelligence development on urban energy efficiency

Model

(1)

(2)

(3)

DV

EEt

GTIt

EEt

AI

0.049***

0.672***

0.044***

(20.109)

(46.782)

(13.576)

Density

0.028***

0.122***

0.028***

(8.638)

(6.317)

(8.452)

Structure

−0.135***

0.168

−0.137***

(−4.178)

(1.042)

(−4.205)

pgdp

0.070***

0.273***

0.069***

(13.373)

(10.248)

(12.735)

so2

−0.019***

0.114***

−0.020***

(−7.195)

(8.065)

(−7.415)

Energy

−0.087***

0.175***

−0.089***

(−26.219)

(9.608)

(−26.614)

gti

  

0.007**

  

(2.364)

Contant

0.883***

−5.633***

0.923***

(16.658)

(−19.659)

(16.659)

Province FE

YES

YES

−0.001

Year FE

YES

YES

(−0.691)

N

4177

4177

4177

R2

0.510

0.910

0.510

  1. Parentheses with standard errors. ***, ** and * indicate significance at the 1, 5, and 10% levels, respectively.