Can government-led urban expansion simultaneously alleviate pollution and carbon emissions? Staggered difference-in-differences evidence from Chinese firms

Q Hu, R Mijit, J Xu, S Miao - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
The outward expansion of city centers is a typical feature of rapid urbanization in develo**
countries, leading to complex environmental pollution effects due to evolving urban spatial …

[PDF][PDF] Globalization and the Environment

BR Copeland, JS Shapiro… - … 2. The book opens with the …, 2021 - library.oapen.org
The world is facing serious environmental problems. Some are local or confined within
countries or regions, such as poor urban air quality in rapidly growing economies, or poor …

Administrative division adjustment and environmental pollution: Evidence from City-County Mergers in China

H Ma, J Zou, H Cai, L Zhang - China Economic Review, 2024 - Elsevier
For countries such as China, where market segmentation is widespread, the introduction of
administrative division adjustments is expected to facilitate interregional integration. In this …

Green to health: the impact of environmental regulation on health status

J Xu, Y Wang, W Liu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
To explore whether and how environmental regulation affects adult health, we manually
collected unique SO 2 reduction targets data of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (11th FYP) in …

Spatial Environmental Economics

CA Balboni, JS Shapiro - 2025 - nber.org
How do environmental goods and policies shape spatial patterns of economic activity? How
will climate change modify these impacts over the coming decades? How do agglomeration …

The control of border pollution: the lure from political promotion incentives

L Guo, J Yang, X Qu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
This study examines the relationship between local political promotion incentives and
border pollution governance. By utilizing the Reform of Political Performance Assessment …

The environmental and economic consequences of environmental centralization: evidence from China's environmental vertical management reform

J Tan, T Liu, H Xu - China Economic Review, 2024 - Elsevier
Environmental decentralization enhances local autonomy accountability and initiatives.
However, some evidence suggests that it might foster a race to the bottom in environmental …