efforts in regulating power plant emissions, our study is aimed at broadening the scope of cross-border pollution analysis by …

the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …

To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using … officially reported air pollution index (API) from 2000 to 2009, we show that these measures improved the API of Beijing during …

regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing a daily air pollution index (API … with two alternative measures of air pollution - namely visibility as reported by the China Meteorological Administration …) for major cities since 2000 and linking the API to performance evaluations of local governments. In particular, China …

” regulations to maintain recent pollution progress. We document that China's cross-city Environmental Kuznets Curve shifts as a … heavily polluted Chinese cities. If clean air is a valued experience good, then this short-term reduction in pollution in … spring 2020 could have persistent medium-term effects on reducing urban pollution levels as cities adopt new “blue sky …

Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … some of the pollution exposure risk. Using a unique data set of Internet purchases, we document that households invest more … in masks and air filter products when ambient pollution levels exceed key alert thresholds. Richer people are more likely …

framework to product-by-store level scanner data on air purifier sales in China, we provide among the first revealed preference … estimates of WTP for clean air in developing countries. A spatial discontinuity in air pollution created by the Huai River … heating policy enables us to analyze household responses to long-run exposure to pollution. Our model allows heterogeneity in …