Yao, Yao; Li, Xue; Smyth, Russell; Zhang, Lin - 2022
China, which underpins the stability of the authoritarian state. Combining a nationally representative and longitudinal … survey with satellite derived PM2.5 concentrations, we find that a one μg/m³ exogenous increase in PM2.5, due to atmospheric … thermal inversion, reduces trust in local government by 4.1 per cent of one standard deviation. This implies that if China …