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 …

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

developing countries. We use part of the 2006 China Agricultural Census (CAC) to examine whether the recent health insurance … coverage in rural China has affected children mortality, pregnancy mortality, and the school enrollment of the 6-16 year old … offer NCMS, a household may take or not take the insurance. A first look of the data suggests that enrolling in NCMS is …