estimates of the private sector productivity elasticities with respect to pollution …

Reductions in ambient pollution have been taken as an indisputable "silver lining" to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Indeed …, including to China's notoriously-poor air quality. We analyze China's official pollution monitor data and account for the large … are found for the six provinces neighboring Hubei. We conclude that COVID-19 had ambiguous impacts on China's pollution …

pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the five years since China … declared a "war on pollution" in 2014. It summarizes the emerging literature that has taken advantage of accompanying … pollution, and understand their social, economic, and health consequences …

production within these goods. Using Chinese official environmental data on air and water pollution, and official trade data, we … relatively cleaner, highly fragmented sectors, and (3) the pollution intensity of Chinese exports has fallen dramatically between … standard model of the pollution intensity of trade, we develop a model that explicitly introduces production fragmentation into …

Has the expansion in exports affected pollution and health outcomes across different prefectures in China in the two …) PollutionExportShock represents the pollution content of export expansion and is measured in pounds of pollutants per worker; (ii … the rest of the world. We find that the pollution content of export affected pollution and mortality. A one standard …

China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …, the regulation has focused on reducing one dimension of water pollution called chemical oxygen demand (COD). Thus, local …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …