Greenstone et al. examine the effect of the introduction of automatic air pollution monitoring on the reporting of local air pollution in China. Using 654 regression discontinuity designs (RDDs) based on city-level variation in the day that monitoring was automated, they find an immediate and...

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...