This study employs China's Yangtze River Economic Belt strategy as a quasi-natural experiment to investigate the impact of prioritizing green development on economic growth. Our empirical findings show that the strategy significantly reduces urban industrial wastewater discharge. It helps...

Climate change poses significant challenges to healthcare systems. This research estimates temperature impacts on hospital workload, using inpatient records from more than 1,000 emergency departments (EDs) in the People's Republic of China between 2013 and 2022. We find inpatient admissions in...