Table 2 Definition specification.
From: Study on the influence of new quality productivity on carbon emissions of the manufacturing industry
Type | Name | Notation | Description of definitions |
|---|---|---|---|
Explained variables | Manufacturing carbon emissions | MCE | Calculation of Carbon Emissions by Manufacturing Industry Using the LMDI Model by Sector |
Explanatory variables | New quality productivity | New | Construct a comprehensive evaluation index system for new quality productivity from the three dimensions of scientific and technological productivity, green productivity and digital productivity, respectively, and use principal component analysis to measure the |
Intermediary variable | Labor productivity in manufacturing | PMW | The ratio of gross manufacturing product to the average annual number of persons employed |
Industrial agglomeration | LQ | Calculated using locational entropy | |
Control variable | Level of foreign investment | For | Expressed in logarithmic terms by the actual amount of foreign investment in China at the end of the year, in which the foreign exchange rate is converted according to the exchange rate of the RMB against the US dollar in that year |
Population density | Den | Measured using the percentage of urban population in each province | |
Income gap between urban and rural residents | Ingap | Tyrell’s index | |
Government intervention capacity | Govn | Fiscal expenditure as a share of GDP | |
Individual effect | Ï„i | Provincial Individual Fixed Effects | |
Year effect | μt | Year fixed effects |
