examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China's experience of importing plastic … air quality, we employ daily data on air pollution between 2015 and 2020. Our difference-in-differences results show that …

those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …

on establishment-level pollution emissions and business characteristics - including trade activities and global … trade policy uncertainty. Emission abatement is mainly driven by a decline in pollution emission intensity, and not by … pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …

global environment. …

, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We … estimate the model's key parameters using administrative data on plant-level production and pollution decisions. We then … pollution changes. Finally, we compare the model-driven decomposition to a statistical decomposition. The model and data suggest …