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Green infrastructure and air pollution: evidence from highways connecting two megacities in China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2021
Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades. This paper examines the causal impact of the opening of a heavily used high speed rail line connecting two megacities in China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution....
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Highway Toll and Air Pollution : Evidence from Chinese Cities
Fu, Shihe - 2016
Most highways in urban China are tolled to finance their construction. During the eight-day National Day holiday in 2012, highway tolls were waived nationwide for passenger vehicles. We use this to identify the effects of highway tolls on air pollution. Using daily pollution and weather data for...
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The role of female population, urbanization and trade openness in sustainable environment : the case of carbon dioxide emissions in Ghana
Marfo, Emmanuel Opoku; Kwakwa, Paul Adjei; Aboagye, Solomon - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19
effect of female population, urbanization and trade openness on carbon dioxide emission in Ghana is assessed. The study used … periods, urbanization was noted to exert positive influence on carbon dioxide emission while trade openness and female … population exert a negative effect on carbon dioxide emission. Thus, growth in urbanization increases carbon dioxide emission …
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Impact of pollution from coal on the anemic status of children and women: evidence from India
Datt, Gaurav; Maitra, Pushkar; Menon, Nidhiya; Ray, Ranjan - 2020
pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …
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Environmental Regulations, Air Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India : A Reexamination
Kyrychenko, Olexiy - 2021
This paper reexamines empirical evidence on the effectiveness of environmental regulations in India from a recent study … by Greenstone and Hanna (GH, 2014). GH report that air pollution control policies in India were effective in improving …
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Air pollution and agricultural productivity in a developing country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with large changes in productivity being common. The...
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Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
I document externalities in the agricultural sector of India due to air pollution. Using variation in pollution induced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347607
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The effect of urbanization on energy use in India and China in the iPETS model
O'Neill, Brian C.; Ren, Xiaolin; Leiwen, Jiang; Dalton, … - In: Energy economics 34 (2012), pp. 339-345
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Impact of urbanization on per capita energy use and emissions in India
Haldar, Stuti; Sharma, Gautam - In: International journal of energy sector management 16 (2022) 1, pp. 191-207
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