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Developing the abundant shale gas in China is a potential means to address the country’s challenges in air pollution and carbon emissions. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the production…

10 June 2020 | Peer Reviewed | China

A common policy response to severe air pollution and traffic congestion in developing-country megacities is to ban the driving of vehicles with license plates ending in certain numbers on certain days…

14 February 2019 | Peer Reviewed | China

The water purification functions of forests represent one of the most frequently invoked examples of non-market ecosystem services that are economically valuable. Yet, there has been a paucity of…

31 August 2020 | EfD Discussion Paper | China

Renewable energy sources such as solar are an alternative to provide clean lighting for many rural households in developing countries. However, transition to these lighting sources has been slow…

28 August 2020 | EfD Discussion Paper | China, Chile, Ethiopia

Earlier studies that evaluated the impact of vehicular emissions on urban air quality often reached mixed conclusions, providing little guidance to city planners seeking solutions to the ever-growing…

30 October 2019 | Peer Reviewed | China

Based on methods developed by Bollerslev et al. (2016), we explicitly accounted for the heteroskedasticity in the measurement errors and for the high volatility of Chinese stock prices; we proposed a…

2 April 2021 | Peer Reviewed | China

This paper estimates the effect of environmental regulation on firm productivity using a spatial regression discontinuity design implicit in China’s water quality monitoring system. Because water…

1 July 2020 | Peer Reviewed | China

This paper examines ethnic differences in fuelwood consumption in rural households, using an original survey dataset from two western Chinese provinces with large ethnic minority populations. We use a…

13 May 2020 | Peer Reviewed | China

In urban areas around the world, increasing motorization and growing travel demand make the urban transportation sector an ever-greater contributor to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions…

2 April 2021 | Peer Reviewed | China

Since 2003, China has implemented a large-scale forest devolution reform by giving villages the right to devolve tenure rights of collectively owned forests to households. Some villages chose no…

29 June 2020 | EfD Discussion Paper | China, Global Hub