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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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Although economists cite potential gains from induced innovation as an advantage of using market-based mechanisms to protect the environment, counts of patents related to flue gas desulfurization units ('scrubbers') peaked before trading of sulfur dioxide (SO2) permits began. This paper uses...
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relationships among household members poses challenges for benefit estimation since it is unlikely that the conditions necessary for … recovering the underlying individual preferences from household choices are satisfied in this setting. We propose a conceptual … relationships for household members of different ages to test the implications of our conceptual model. Respondents' choices take …
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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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Using patent data from the United States, Japan, and Germany, this paper examines both the innovation and diffusion of air pollution control equipment. Whereas the United States was an early adopter of stringent sulfur dioxide (SO2) standards, both Japan and Germany introduced stringent nitrogen...
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