How does population aging affect green building development?:a study from China evidence

Governments of China are vigorously promoting the green building development, aiming to solve the problem of heavy pollution emissions from the traditional construction industry. However, previous studies on green building development have ignored the impact of the trend of global population aging. In order to fill this gap, this paper creatively constructs a theoretical analysis framework of the impact of population aging on the green building development, and then makes an empirical test by using the panel number of 30 provinces in China from 2008 to 2019.The results show that the population aging has an inverted “U” effect on the green building development, in which the consumption demand of the elderly, the labor productivity of the construction industry the aging preference of financial structure play a mediating effect, but the mechanism is different. In addition, there is regional heterogeneity in the impact of population aging on the green building development. at present, only the aging population in the eastern part of China has a significant inverted “U” impact on the green building development. The above research conclusions have certain theoretical and practical significance for government departments to promote the green building development in the coming aging society.