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Clean air as an experience good in urban China.
Kahn, Matthew E; Sun, Weizeng; Zheng, Siqi.
Afiliação
  • Kahn ME; Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, NBER, United States of America.
  • Sun W; Central University of Finance and Economics, 39 South College Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.
  • Zheng S; Sustainable Urbanization Lab, Center for Real Estate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America.
Ecol Econ ; 192: 107254, 2022 Feb.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34690430
The surprise economic shutdown due to COVID-19 caused a sharp improvement in urban air quality in many previously heavily polluted Chinese cities. If clean air is a valued experience good, then this short-term reduction in pollution in spring 2020 could have persistent medium-term effects on reducing urban pollution levels as cities adopt new "blue sky" regulations to maintain recent pollution progress. We document that China's cross-city Environmental Kuznets Curve shifts as a function of a city's demand for clean air. We rank 144 cities in China based on their population's baseline sensitivity to air pollution and with respect to their recent air pollution gains due to the COVID shutdown. The largest experience good effect should take place for cities featuring a high pollution sensitive population and where air quality has sharply improved during the pandemic. The residents of these cities have increased their online discussions focused on environmental protection, and local officials are incorporating "green" industrial subsidies into post-COVID stimulus policies.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article