This paper examines the relationship between income, pollution, and mortality in China from 1991-2012. Using first-difference models, we document a robust positive association between city-level GDP and life expectancy. We also find a negative association between city-level particulate air...

By exploiting exogenous variation in air quality during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, we estimate the effect of air pollution on mortality in China. We find that a 10-μg/m^3 (roughly 10%) decrease in PM_10 concentrations reduces monthly standardized all-cause mortality by 6.63%. The...

Creative agriculture, a new agricultural format formed by integrating agriculture, tourism and creative industries, is an important part of the urban modern agriculture. Proceeding from the functional position as an ecological conservation area, Miyun creative agriculture has obtained rapid...

CO2 emissions of the electricity supply sector in China account for about half of the total volume in the country. Thus, reducing CO2 emissions in China’s electricity supply sector will contribute significantly to the efforts of greenhouse gas (GHG) control in the country and the rest of the...

In this paper, we construct an intermediate distribution linking the Gaussian and the Cauchy distribution. We provide the probability density function and the corresponding characteristic function of the intermediate distribution. Because many kinds of distributions have no moment, we introduce...

"We study the capital structure decisions of listed firms in China between 1992 and 2001. The Chinese market exhibits high information asymmetry, phenomenal growth, highly concentrated ownership, and a lack of external market for corporate control. We find that Chinese firms use little long-term...

In this paper, the phase transition characteristics of CO2 and CO2/H2 mixture are analyzed, and ideas for improving the cryogenic separation method are drawn. On this basis, a novel CO2 cryogenic liquefaction and separation system is put forward. In the novel system, two-stage compression,...

Auditing by downstream firms has limited effects on Chinese firms' adherence to labor standards and other measures of blue collar workers' well-being. Auditing does not affect the supplier's blue-collar employees' wages, probability of belonging to a union, or likelihood of working overtime....