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The Promise of Beijing : Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
Chen, Yuyu - 2011
To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127978
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Clearing the Air Through Pipes? An Evaluation of the Air Pollution Reduction Effect of China’s Natural Gas Pipeline Projects
Gao, Yanyan - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact of China's natural gas pipeline projects (NGPPs) on air pollution reduction, by using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847117
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The Promise of Beijing : Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
Chen, Yuyu - 2011
To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461750
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Can Target-Based Environmental Regulations Effectively Improve City Air Quality? Evidence From China’s Total Emissions Control Policy
Gao, Yanyan; Huang, Jianbo - 2022
Since the 9th Five Year Plan (FYP) period (1996-2000), the Chinese central government began to adopt the total emissions control (TEC) policy, a target-based environmental regulation which set emission reduction targets for designated pollutants. The policy became highly binding for local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254100
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The Effect of Subway Expansion on Air Quality : Evidence from Beijing
Li, Shanjun; Liu, Yanyan; Purevjav, Avralt-Od; Yang, Lin - 2019
Major cities in China and many other fast-growing economies are expanding their subway systems in order to address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109428
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Revisiting the Impact of Driving Restrictions on Air Quality : Evidence from Guangzhou City in China
Pan, Zheng; Zhang, Xuxian; Li, Chengzheng - 2022
investigates the effect of plated-based driving restrictions in Guangzhou city, China, where drivers with nonlocal vehicles are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013297139
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Health Impacts of Two Policies Regulating So2 Air Pollution Evidence from China
Eriksson, Tor; Wang, Yuze; Luo, Nengsheng - 2021
data from eight waves of China Health and Nutrition Survey (1993-2015), we employ a difference-in-differences model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311082
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Impact of Nighttime Economy on Air Quality : Evidence from Communities in China
Wang, Yangchuan; Yao, Zhenyu - 2023
China’s nighttime economy is associated with leisure, tourism and service sectors, mainly including entertainment …-related activities such as restaurants and theatres. Using night lights to proxy for the nighttime economy at the com- munities of China … air pollution. Our study also shows that following a period with heavy pollution, a rising nighttime economy in China does …
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Keep your clunker in the suburb : Low Emission Zones and adoption of green vehicles
Wolff, Hendrik - 2014
Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of great policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which vehicular access is allowed only to vehicles that emit low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356908
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Pandemic meets pollution: poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
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