What do we know about short-and long-term effects of early-life exposure to pollution?

J Currie, JG Zivin, J Mullins… - Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ., 2014 - annualreviews.org
Evidence shows that pollution exposure early in life is detrimental to near-term health, and
an increasing body of evidence suggests that early-childhood health influences health and …

[HTML][HTML] Household air pollution and its effects on health

K Apte, S Salvi - F1000Research, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Household air pollution is a leading cause of disability-adjusted life years in Southeast Asia
and the third leading cause of disability-adjusted life years globally. There are at least sixty …

Does public participation promote environmental efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of environmental information disclosure in China

H Zhang, T Xu, C Feng - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Previous literature on improving environmental efficiency largely focuses on the power of the
government, ignoring the role of public participation represented by environmental non …

Going carbon-neutral in China: Does the low-carbon city pilot policy improve carbon emission efficiency?

H Zhang, C Feng, X Zhou - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2022 - Elsevier
To combat climate change and move towards carbon neutrality, China has implemented the
low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy since 2010, with carrying out three batches of pilot cities …

Robust relationship between air quality and infant mortality in Africa

S Heft-Neal, J Burney, E Bendavid, M Burke - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Poor air quality is thought to be an important mortality risk factor globally,–, but there is little
direct evidence from the developing world on how mortality risk varies with changing …

The effect of air pollution on mortality in China: Evidence from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

G He, M Fan, M Zhou - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
By exploiting exogenous variations in air quality during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, we
estimate the effect of air pollution on mortality in China. We find that a 10 percent decrease …

Can expanding natural gas infrastructure mitigate CO2 emissions? Analysis of heterogeneous and mediation effects for China

K Dong, X Dong, X Ren - Energy Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
To verify whether the expansion of natural gas infrastructure can effectively mitigate carbon
dioxide (CO 2) emissions in China, this study first investigates the impact of natural gas …

Can expanding natural gas consumption reduce China's CO2 emissions?

B Xu, B Lin - Energy Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
China is now the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO 2), thus leading to China
facing enormous pressure on CO 2 emission reduction. Natural gas is a high thermal and …

Cities in the developing world

G Bryan, E Glaeser, N Tsivanidis - Annual Review of Economics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic
opportunity and challenges, like contagious disease and congestion, because proximity …

Air pollution and mortality impacts of coal mining: Evidence from coalmine accidents in China

Y Chu, JS Holladay, Y Qiu, XL Tian, M Zhou - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
We leverage the timing of coalmine accidents to examine the effect of coal mining on air
pollution. Safety regulations mandate that coal mining be suspended if a mine experiences …