Can Industrial Relocation Reduce Air Pollution? Evidence From a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

Can Industrial Relocation Reduce Air Pollution? Evidence From a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

To reduce the increasingly severe air pollution caused by rapid industrialization, China has introduced a National Industrial Relocation Demonstration Zones (NIRDZs) policy. This paper takes the NIRDZs as a quasi-natural experiment and employs the difference-in-differences (DID) method to test the e...

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Main Authors: Tao Ge, Xuchen Lv, Li Ma, Xiaoyan Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
Subjects:
industrial relocation
air pollution
difference-in-differences method
spillover effect
China
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.910668/full

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