Highway toll and air pollution: Evidence from Chinese cities

Fu, Shihe; Gu, Yizhen

doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2016.11.007

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“…The results show that new subway openings had a significantly negative effect on PM 2.5 concentrations, both under constant time trends and varying time trends. These estimates were robust up to the third order time trend [67,68]. According to Figure 1, this paper mainly focused on linear and quadratic trends in the relative short term.…”

Section: Regression Discontinuity Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Do Urban Subway Openings Reduce PM2.5 Concentrations? Evidence from China

Hong-you

Zhu

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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With the fast-growing consumption of automobiles in China, vehicle fumes appear to be one of the major contributors to PM 2.5 (fine particles with a diameter of 2.5 µm or less) emissions. As a type of green transportation, Chinese urban subway transit has developed rapidly in recent years. This paper estimates the effect of urban subway openings on PM 2.5 concentrations in Chinese cities. Using daily air quality data for 29 Chinese cities from 2013 to 2018, and using regression discontinuity design, we find that new subway openings reduce PM 2.5 concentrations by an average of 18 µg/m 3 . The potential mechanism for this emission reduction is due to the offset in on-road transportation, and the use of cleaner energy. Also, central heating in winter, population scale, and city tier play crucial roles in the emission-reducing effect of subway openings. A series of robustness tests are conducted to support the fundamental empirical results. Targeted policy implications, such as optimizing the planning of urban subway construction and road network, fostering awareness of green travel, and promoting the innovation of emission-reducing technologies, are suggested for sustainable development in Chinese cities.

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Section: Regression Discontinuity Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Do Urban Subway Openings Reduce PM2.5 Concentrations? Evidence from China

Hong-you

Zhu

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…In this literature, Davis (2008) the restriction upgrade (from one-day to every-other-day) was overall ineffective in improving air quality, most likely due to the hiring of alternative vehicles or higher car sales. Fu and Gu (2017) are among the few to study the use of tolls as a policy to alleviate congestion and to curb vehicle carbon emissions. The authors exploit the fact that tolls were waived nationwide in China for passenger vehicles during the eight-day National Day holiday in 2012.…”

Section: Driving Restrictions and Tollsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comprehensive History of Regression Discontinuity Designs: An Empirical Survey of the last 60 Years

Villamizar‐Villegas¹,

Pinzón-Puerto²,

Ruiz-Sanchez³

2020

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In this paper we detail the entire Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) history, including its origins in the 1960's, and its two main waves of formalization in the 1970's and 2000's, both of which are rarely acknowledged in the literature. Also, we dissect the empirical work into fuzzy and sharp designs and provide some intuition as to why some rule-based criteria produce imperfect compliance. Finally, we break the literature down by economic field, highlighting the main outcomes, treatments, and running variables employed. Overall, we see some topics in economics gaining importance through time, like the cases of: health, finance, crime, environment, and political economy. In particular, we highlight applications in finance as the most novel. Nonetheless, we recognize that the field of education stands out as the uncontested RDD champion through time, with the greatest number of empirical applications.

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“…Greenstone and Hanna (2014) used policy dummies to explore the infant mortality effect of the Supreme Court Action Plans and the mandatory use of catalytic converters on air pollution and the National River Conservation Plan on water pollution in India [20]. Fu and Gu (2017) used two dummies to explain the increasing air pollution by highway tolls waiver in China, in which one dummy was set as 1 if on a day highway tolls were waived, and the other was set to be 1 on the national days [21]. Boslett, Guilfoos, and Lang (2016) use a state dummy of Pennsylvania and New York and a period dummy of pre-moratorium and post-moratorium to estimate the double difference of the local impacts of shale gas development [22].…”

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confidence: 99%

Does Environmental Information Disclosure Make Firms’ Investments More Efficient? Evidence from Measure 2007 of Chinese A-Listed Companies

2020

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Using a sample of 2822 Chinese A-listed firms over the 2002–2015 period and the propensity score matching with difference-in-differences (PSM-DID) approach, we estimate the causality of environmental information disclosure (EID)’s impact on investment efficiency based on a quasi-experiment in 2007. This paper finds strong and robust evidence that there is a significant positive connection between EID and company investment efficiency in China. We further determine that heterogeneity of EID’s performance appears in the different settings of industry and subdivision industries. The significance of several sub-industries disappeared while the others retained larger significant coefficients than the whole industry case. The probability that an enterprise issues an environmental annual report has a significant positive link with investment efficiency in heavy industry, while this relationship is weakened or even not obvious in non-heavy polluting industries. Finally, we find that employee compensation serves as a mediator from which EID has an indirect effect on investment efficiency. Our results confirm that EID plays a vital role in firm-level capital allocation efficiency.

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Highway toll and air pollution: Evidence from Chinese cities

Cited by 135 publications

References 49 publications

Do Urban Subway Openings Reduce PM2.5 Concentrations? Evidence from China

Do Urban Subway Openings Reduce PM2.5 Concentrations? Evidence from China

A Comprehensive History of Regression Discontinuity Designs: An Empirical Survey of the last 60 Years

Does Environmental Information Disclosure Make Firms’ Investments More Efficient? Evidence from Measure 2007 of Chinese A-Listed Companies

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