The effects of the entries by bike-sharing platforms on urban air quality
We study the effects of bike-sharing usage on urban air quality in China. Our Difference-in-Differences strategy exploits the staggered entries by two leading bike-sharing companies, ofo and Mobike, and utilizes city-day panel data. We find that the entries of the two bike-sharing platforms can redu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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KeAi Communications Co. Ltd.
2023-09-01
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| Series: | China Economic Quarterly International |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666933123000333 |
| Summary: | We study the effects of bike-sharing usage on urban air quality in China. Our Difference-in-Differences strategy exploits the staggered entries by two leading bike-sharing companies, ofo and Mobike, and utilizes city-day panel data. We find that the entries of the two bike-sharing platforms can reduce PM2.5 by 3.832 μg/m3. Further analyses imply that the effects are more conspicuous on pollutants from the exhaust emission of vehicles, increase with the usage intensity of bike-sharing service, and are more pronounced in cities with well-developed rail transit or those located in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Air Pollution Transmission Channel. |
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| ISSN: | 2666-9331 |