Ensuring a harmonious coexistence between man and nature is crucial for China's economic and social development. However, with increasing industrialization and urbanization, there is a growing mismatch between China's ecological resilience (ER) and economic level (EL) of development, which poses...

Policies to mitigate climate change are high on the political agenda and their distributional consequences are actively discussed. This paper makes two contributions to this discussion. First, it empirically identifies the spatial dimension between rural and urban households as important for the...

We estimate the causal effect of partisan media on voter behavior by exploiting a natural experiment in which Sky News Australia – a conservative 24-hour news channel – became freely available to 8 million people. Using comprehensive national polling-station-level electoral data and...