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Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … inequality in human capital accumulation and in quality of life inequality in urban China …
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" regulations to maintain recent pollution progress. We document that China's cross-city Environmental Kuznets Curve shifts as a … function of a city's demand for clean air. We rank 144 cities in China based on their population's baseline sensitivity to air …
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China. The model is estimated using China Population Census Data along with PM2.5 satellite data. Our study provides new … equilibrium sorting model to the valuation of non-market amenities in China. We employ two novel instrumental variables based on …
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framework to product-by-store level scanner data on air purifier sales in China, we provide among the first revealed preference … heating policy enables us to analyze household responses to long-run exposure to pollution. Our model allows heterogeneity in …
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regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing a daily air pollution index (API …) for major cities since 2000 and linking the API to performance evaluations of local governments. In particular, China … alternative measures of air pollution - namely visibility as reported by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and Aerosol …
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To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …
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Government subsidies are often used to stimulate environment-friendly investment. We find that Chinese firms reduce green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air pollution that lead to fluctuations in subsidy...
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The decade from 2010 to 2019 marked a significant turning point in China's history of environmental regulation and … pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the five years since China …
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Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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We created experimental variation across local markets in China in the share of firms having access to a new loan …
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