We investigate whether and how government fiscal squeeze affects local firms’ pollution emissions. To establish … causality, we introduce a policy shock in China, namely, the canceling of agricultural taxes in 2005, to document that …%. Mechanism analyses show that local fiscal squeeze result in aggravating pollution emissions through inducing the reduction of …

This paper investigates the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic firms’ air pollution emissions in a … developing country context. We provide quasi-natural experiment evidence from China, using a plausibly exogeneous relaxation of … FDI regulations upon China’s WTO accession in 2001. Based on a panel of domestic major polluting firms of 1998-2007, we …

second largest HFCs emitter, China plays a critical role in global efforts to reduce SLCPs and has acknowledged the need to … reduction to identify global best practices to inform target development and policy actions in China and elsewhere. We used … bottom-up modeling and scenario analysis to evaluate pathways of non-CO 2 emission mitigation in China to 2050, drawing on …

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested to construct development zones (DZs) in China with the intent of … environmental impacts. Based on statistical data and satellite measurements during 2003-2013, we examine the impacts of China’s DZ … program on city-level haze pollution by employing a spatial panel method that accounts for potential spatial spillover effects …

From 2013 to 2015, China established nationwide air quality monitoring stations, beginning to release real-time air … pollution information to the public. This policy of releasing air pollution information provides access to the government and … air pollution in prefecture-level cities. The results show that information disclosure significantly decreases the …

The emission of condensable particulate matter (CPM) and its environmental impacts are arousing concern in China with … inventory for industrial sectors and systematically evaluated the effects of CPM on primary and secondary PM2.5 in China. In … China. The 4 μg/m3 PM2.5 concentration was attributed to CPM emissions in this region, accounting for 10% of observations …

From 2013 to 2015, China gradually established nationwide air quality monitoring stations, and began to release real …-time air pollution information to the public. We exploit the step-by-step environmental regulation across cities to identify … the effects of information disclosure on air pollution. We find that information disclosure significantly decreases the …

In developing countries widespread air pollution poses a major threat to public health calling for effective … data from eight waves of China Health and Nutrition Survey (1993-2015), we employ a difference-in-differences model to … investigate the health impact of two policies combatting SO 2 air pollution: the command-controlled environmental regulation …