international trade and the environment with a focus on recent work and methods. We discuss the literature linking trade to local …

are borne by downstream neighbors. This paper exploits a natural experiment set in China in which the central government …

In generating fast economic growth, China is also generating growing concern about its environmental record. Using 2000 …

Since 2005, the Chinese government has engaged in an ambitious effort to move China's energy system away from coal and … towards more environmentally friendly sources of energy. However, China's investment in coal power has accelerated sharply in …. In this paper, we ask why China engaged in such a pronounced investment boom in coal power in the mid-2010s. We find the …

To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …

China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …

, including to China's notoriously-poor air quality. We analyze China's official pollution monitor data and account for the large … the important exception of NO2, China's air quality improvements in 2020 are smaller than we should expect near the … are found for the six provinces neighboring Hubei. We conclude that COVID-19 had ambiguous impacts on China's pollution …

During 2013-2014, China launched a nationwide, real-time air quality monitoring and disclosure program, a watershed … exploiting its staggered implementation across cities. The program has transformed the landscape of China's environmental …