Women have become "the source of prosperity and vitality" through their active participation in national economic development. This paper provides the first study to explore the impact of the "One Belt One Road" initiative (Belt and Road Initiative [BRI]) on women's development, which is mainly...

We provide linear and non-parametric estimates of the causal impact of short-term exposure to polluted air on the prevalence of cough in a panel of a hundred Chinese cities. In our central estimate, which exploits plausibly-exogenous variations in the number of agricultural fires burning in the...

This paper investigates the causal effect of air pollution on urban tourism activities proxied by the Baidu Index for tourist attractions. In our preferred IV specification, daily air pollution is exogenously instrumented by the thermal inversion strength. The result remains robust in magnitude...