[HTML][HTML] Energy poverty and beyond: the state, contexts, and trajectories of energy poverty studies in Asia

C Chan, LL Delina - Energy Research & Social Science, 2023 - Elsevier
There is a dichotomy in the understanding of energy poverty between Asia and the rest of
the world, especially in the Global North. While there has been considerable discourse …

[HTML][HTML] Towards cool cities and communities: Preparing for an increasingly hot future by the development of heat-resilient infrastructure and urban heat management …

Y Cui, M Yin, X Cheng, J Tang, BJ He - Environmental Technology & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Planning for extreme heat challenges is an urgent task for urban planners, designers, and
managers because urban heat is a new normal climate-related challenge for many cities …

Extreme heat and firms' robot adoption: Evidence from China

Y Tang, Z He - China Economic Review, 2024 - Elsevier
This is the first study to explore the relationship between extreme heat and firms' robot
adoption. The findings demonstrate that, relative to a day in the reference temperature bin …

Intersectoral transfers and drivers of net CO2 emissions in China incorporating sources and sinks

Y Wang, Y Hang, S Jeong, Q Wang - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
For China to achieve carbon neutrality, the intersectoral transfers and drivers of net CO 2
emissions (NCE) must be thoroughly and accurately investigated. However, it appears that …

Air pollution and individual risk preference: Evidence from China

K Liu, C Meng, S Yang, G Zhang - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Individual risk preference is a crucial determinant of decision-making under conditions of
uncertainty. Risk preference is associated with internal individual characteristics as well as …

Temperature exposure and health inequality

X Zhang, F Chen, Z Chen, J Zhang - Journal of Asian Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the relationship among temperature exposure, health inequality, and
adaptive behavior in China, a country with diverse climate zones ranging from the cold, arid …

A tale of two markets—would housing appreciation prompt insurance participation? Evidence from China's urban elderly

J Han - Journal of Asian Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates how housing wealth affects urban elderly's commercial health
insurance participation by using the discontinuity along housing size formed by China's …

Assessing the accuracy of self-reported health expenditure data: Evidence from two public surveys in China

Z Hao, X Zhang, Y Wang - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper utilizes Benford's law, the distribution that the first significant digit of numbers in
certain datasets should follow, to assess the accuracy of self-reported health expenditure …

Modeling the Impact of Extreme Climate Events on Household Welfare: An Empirical Framework

N Spencer, E Strobl - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2025 - Springer
This paper provides a review of the main empirical challenges involved in quantitatively
estimating the impact of extreme climate events on household welfare at the micro-level. To …

Health undermined in extreme temperatures: Empirical evidence from China

X Zhang, Y Lin, Y Bai, Z Wang, C Wang - International Journal of Disaster …, 2025 - Elsevier
While climate change affects everyone, less attention has been paid to the impacts of
extreme weather on vulnerable groups such as middle-aged and elderly individuals. By …