The 'pollution haven' hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in … the effect at the firm level. In addition, environmental standard of the host countries and pollution intensity of the … transition economies. With these improvements, we find some support for the 'pollution haven' hypothesis, but the overall …

The quality of governance depends on public sector worker productivity. We use micro data from China to document that … estimates of the private sector productivity elasticities with respect to pollution …

, including to China's notoriously-poor air quality. We analyze China's official pollution monitor data and account for the large … are found for the six provinces neighboring Hubei. We conclude that COVID-19 had ambiguous impacts on China's pollution …Reductions in ambient pollution have been taken as an indisputable "silver lining" to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Indeed …

pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the five years since China …The decade from 2010 to 2019 marked a significant turning point in China's history of environmental regulation and … declared a "war on pollution" in 2014. It summarizes the emerging literature that has taken advantage of accompanying …

products, aggravating environmental damage. China's rapidly growing trade and serious environmental degradation appear to be no … exception. However, much of China's trade growth is attributable to the international fragmentation of production. This kind of … trade could be cleaner, if fragmented production occurs in cleaner goods, or if China specializes in cleaner stages of …

Has the expansion in exports affected pollution and health outcomes across different prefectures in China in the two …) PollutionExportShock represents the pollution content of export expansion and is measured in pounds of pollutants per worker; (ii … the rest of the world. We find that the pollution content of export affected pollution and mortality. A one standard …

China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …, the regulation has focused on reducing one dimension of water pollution called chemical oxygen demand (COD). Thus, local …

China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find …We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …

that together determine the new economic geography of industry and pollution within China …China's rapid economic growth has been fueled by industrialization and urbanization. Given its export focus, this … survey examines recent work that studies the economic geography of industrial production, per-capita income, pollution and …