potentially refutable predictions on abatement costs, pollution levels, or emission intensities …

Has the expansion in exports affected pollution and health outcomes across different prefectures in China in the two …) PollutionExportShock represents the pollution content of export expansion and is measured in pounds of pollutants per worker; (ii … the rest of the world. We find that the pollution content of export affected pollution and mortality. A one standard …

China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …, the regulation has focused on reducing one dimension of water pollution called chemical oxygen demand (COD). Thus, local …

China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find …We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …

that together determine the new economic geography of industry and pollution within China …China's rapid economic growth has been fueled by industrialization and urbanization. Given its export focus, this … survey examines recent work that studies the economic geography of industrial production, per-capita income, pollution and …

China's extremely high levels of urban air, water and greenhouse gas emissions levels pose local and global … environmental challenges. China's urban leaders have substantial influence and discretion over the evolution of economic activity … pollution issues. Based on a principal-agent framework, we present evidence consistent with the hypothesis that both the central …

technical efficiency. We examine how industrial firms responded to China's severe power shortages in the early 2000s. Fast …

To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using … officially reported air pollution index (API) from 2000 to 2009, we show that these measures improved the API of Beijing during …