During a period of extraordinary urban growth, China's per-capita carbon footprint could soar. A growth in households' willingness to purchase “green” products and to engage in voluntary restraint could help offset this pollution increase as the free market will design products to cater to...

Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China's wealthy have the purchasing power to purchase private products such as portable room air filters that allows them to offset some of the pollution exposure risk. Using a unique data...

Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China's wealthy have the purchasing power to purchase private products such as portable room air filters that allows them to offset some of the pollution exposure risk. Using a unique data...

Based on the household survey of “household energy consumption and living conditions in Beijing”, in this paper, we estimate the determinants of household carbon emissions and its relation to a community's building, neighborhood and location attributes. We find that a community with...

While the cost of extreme temperature on production is well documented, little is known about its impact on consumption, a prevailing measure of welfare. Using micro shopping data, we report that an additional hot day in a week reduces an average household’s weekly retail consumption by 1%....

The practice of split households among rural–urban migrants in China has persisted for more than twenty years. In this paper we compare three forms of split households, differentiated by whether the migrant's spouse and children are left behind or have joined the migrant: sole migration,...