Air pollution, residents’ happiness, and environmental regulation: evidence from China

Xu, Fang; Xiao-ling, Luo; Zhou, Di

doi:10.1007/s11356-022-20233-x

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“…In case (5), we investigate the impact of the implementation of new environmental protection law on air pollution. Clearly, the new law's implementation dramatically reduced air pollution, which is consistent with Xu et al (2022), who find that environmental regulations can mitigate the negative effect of air pollution on social happiness. We can infer that the new environmental protection law's ability to reduce air pollution is independent to the impact of ESG investments because there is little change in the estimates of ESG investments and a big increase in the adjusted R squared.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…ε i,t is the error term. According to Bonasia et al (2022) and Xu et al (2022), coal consumption, government medical expenditure, government educational expenditure, education construction, population, SO 2 emission, urban environment infrastructure, unemployment rate, divorce rate, gross domestic product, proportion of urban population, birth rate, and death rate are selected as control variables.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In China, public information requests may be the most effective method of pollution control. According to Xu et al (2022), all three types of environmental regulations (command-and-control, market-based, and voluntary) can reduce the negative effects of air pollution on residents' happiness, but the overall mitigation effect is non-linear. In terms of welfare, air pollution is costly to society and individuals.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Can ESG investments and new environmental law improve social happiness in China?

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Tian

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Air pollution was a serious issue in China in the early 2010s, threatening public health and sustainable economic development. The Chinese government established a new environmental protection law in 2015 in order to address air pollution and other environmental issues. This paper investigates the impact of the new environmental law and ESG investments on air pollution and social happiness. We discovered that the implementation of the new environmental law and ESG investments significantly improved social happiness by reducing air pollution. One unit increase in ESG investments would result in a 0.334 unit decrease in air pollution and 0.225 unit increase in social happiness.

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Tian

2023

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“…In terms of the psychosocial environment, children and adolescents are emotionally immature and easily affected by the environment. Air pollution can increase the risk of depression by reducing opportunities for outdoor activities [43], lowering happiness [43], stimulating teenage stress responses [29], and leading to more fatigue and emotional distress [44]. Moreover, Joo et al demonstrated that mothers residing in communities with higher exposure to PM 2.5 experience more depressive symptoms, which may result in increased child abuse and subsequently, an escalation in internalizing problem behaviors, including depression, among 10-year-old children [30].…”

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The association between air pollutants and depression in children and adolescents: a systematic review

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Wan,

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Environ. Res. Commun.

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Depression is a common disease with a high prevalence among children and adolescents. Emerging evidence suggests that air pollution can increase the risk of depression. However, studies examining the relationship between air pollution and depression in children and adolescents are still in their nascent stages. We conducted a systematic review of current studies to investigate how air pollution and air quality issues relating to wildfires affect depression in children and adolescents aged 6 to 19. Our study found that both wildfire-related air exposure and air pollution may be associated with an increased risk of depression among children and teenagers. Ozone exerts a short-term impact on depression in young populations, whereas fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and NO2 have a long-term impact. Heterogeneity exists across studies, necessitating further investigation. Attention should be paid to the effects of air pollution and wildfires on the mental health of children and adolescents.

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“…These enhance the skills, performances, and competitiveness of university professionals or specialists and further improve the quality of the local higher education sector [ 34 , 35 ]. Moreover, better environmental governance status benefits the college students both physically and emotionally, increases their recognition of green campuses, promotes better study quality, and thus enhances the quality of the local higher education [ 36 , 37 ]. Furthermore, as a typical teaching mode, environmental governance-related practices promote students’ environmental awareness and optimize their environmental protection behaviors; as typical examples, environmental governance-related cases enhance teaching effectiveness: these contribute to better outputs or performances of the local higher education sector [ 6 , 38 , 39 ].…”

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Coupling coordination between higher education and environmental governance: Evidence of western China

Geng

Huang

2022

PLoS ONE

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Exploring the coupling coordination mechanism between higher education and environmental governance is conducive to understanding the mutual interactions between them and thus enhancing mutual development. This study constructs the coupling coordination mechanism and the aggregated evaluation index system to measure the mutual coordination relations between them, assesses the performances and the coupling coordination degrees between them in the case of western provincial regions in China, and proposes countermeasures based on the prediction results. It is found that the performances of higher education are relatively more stable than those of environmental governance, and the distributions of the average performance grades exist noticeable geographical differences. Besides, the coupling coordination degrees increase with mild fluctuations with relatively small spatial variations, demonstrating the balanced and similar coordinated development status among regions; furthermore, in the future, the gaps in the coordination status among regions will gradually decline. This study highlights the mutual coordination mechanism between the two subsystems, compares the coupling coordination status among regions both temporally and spatially, and proposes specific, generalizable development suggestions that contribute to the academic sector, policymakers, ecology, and sustainability.

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Air pollution, residents’ happiness, and environmental regulation: evidence from China

Cited by 8 publications

References 61 publications

Can ESG investments and new environmental law improve social happiness in China?

Can ESG investments and new environmental law improve social happiness in China?

The association between air pollutants and depression in children and adolescents: a systematic review

Coupling coordination between higher education and environmental governance: Evidence of western China

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