Universal healthcare coverage and health service delivery before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A difference-in-difference study of childhood immunization …

S Kim, TY Headley, Y Tozan - PLoS Medicine, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Several studies have indicated that universal health coverage (UHC) improves
health service utilization and outcomes in countries. These studies, however, have primarily …

Do carbon ETS pilots improve cities' green total factor productivity? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

C Li, Y Qi, S Liu, X Wang - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Improving green total factor productivity (GTFP) is required for China's economic catch-up
towards the global frontier. As a vital market-driven environmental regulation instrument …

The subways seeded the massive coronavirus epidemic in New York City

JE Harris - 2020 - nber.org
ABSTRACT New York City's multipronged subway system was a major disseminator–if not
the principal transmission vehicle–of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the …

Do regional integration policies matter? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment on heterogeneous green innovation

L Li, S Ma, Y Zheng, X Ma, K Duan - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, the governance crisis represented by air pollution, climate warming, and
resource and environmental degradation has restricted the sustainable development of …

China's belt and road initiative in Latin America: what has changed?

R Jenkins - Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
When China invited the Latin American countries to participate in the Belt and Road
Initiative, it fuelled expectations of a much closer and more productive relationship with the …

How can rural digitalization improve agricultural green total factor productivity: Empirical evidence from counties in China

S Lu, J Zhuang, Z Sun, M Huang - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Against the backdrop of escalating environmental pollution and resource depletion induced
by traditional agricultural industry development, the imperative for agricultural efficiency and …

Synthetic control methodology for examining firearm policy

MD Esposti, D Wiebe, E Kaufman… - Current epidemiology …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Firearm policies have the potential to alleviate the public health
burden of firearm violence, yet it is unclear which policies are effective. The current review …

Permanence of avoided deforestation in a Transamazon REDD+ project (Pará, Brazil)

CD Carrilho, G Demarchi, AE Duchelle, S Wunder… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rigorous impact evaluations of local REDD+ (reduced emissions from deforestation and
forest degradation) initiatives have shown some positive outcomes for forests, while well …

The impact and mechanism analysis of Clean Development Mechanism on the synergistic effects of pollution mitigation and carbon reduction

Y Xu, J Peng, J Tian, S Fu, C Hu, S Fu, Y Feng - Environmental Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The establishment of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has greatly improved
China's carbon emission trading system. However, due to the unbalanced development of …

Opening the “black box” of food safety policy implementation: The efficiency-enhancing role of a private meso-institution

GM de Oliveira, BV Miranda, MSM Saes, G Martino - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
There is continuing interest in how rules created at the “institutional environment” level
influence the performance of food safety policies. The influence of institutional rules on the …