Center for China Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Department of Economics, Geborg University, Sweden

Intergenerational disparity in income and health violates the norm of equal opportunity and deserves the attention of researchers and policy makers. To understand changes in intergenerational disparity, we created the intergenerational mobility index (IMI), which can simultaneously measure...

This study examines and decomposes dynamic changes in total factor carbon emissions performance within the transportation sector in China, incorporating the impact of regional heterogeneity. For this purpose, we combine the metafrontier approach with the non-radial Luenberger productivity...

This paper defines the lattice point drivers’ heterogeneity of the disturbance risk preference and proposes a new one-dimensional traffic flow lattice model to research the effects of the lattice point drivers’ heterogeneity of the disturbance risk preference on traffic flow instability. By...

A metafrontier slack-based efficiency measure is presented to measure environmental efficiency for various regions in China. The objective of the new approach is to investigate the change of environmental efficiency while incorporating group heterogeneities and all variable slack and...

Compared with ordinary products, environmentally friendly products (EFPs) usually have higher cost for R%D and uncompetitive price. Also, there may be technological renovation and policy uncertainty leading to volatility of demand, which causes high risk to firms in green supply chains....

A compression heat pump driven and membrane-based liquid desiccant air dehumidification system is presented. The dehumidifier and the regenerator are made of two hollow fiber membrane bundles packed in two shells. Water vapor can permeate through these membranes effectively, while the liquid...

This paper examines the effect of size control policy on the energy and carbon efficiency for Chinese fossil fuel power industry. For this purpose, we propose two non-radial directional distance functions for energy/carbon efficiency analysis of fossil fuel electricity generation. One is named a...

The level of arable land-use intensity has important impacts on food security and rural sustainable development. Using the emergy method, we investigate the spatial disparities and driving forces of arable land-use intensity in China from 1999 to 2008 at the national, regional and provincial...

China is the world's largest CO2 producer and energy consumer. In this paper, we calculate the maximum technically obtainable CO2 emissions reduction from the efficient use of inputs and estimate the shadow prices of CO2 emissions in order to assess the potential cost savings deriving from...