Centralization of environmental administration and air pollution: Evidence from China

IF 5.5 3区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI:10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103016
Jidong Chen , Xinzheng Shi , Ming-ang Zhang , Sihan Zhang
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This paper studies how centralizing environmental administration affects air pollution in China. China launched a reform in 2016 to empower upper-level environmental protection bureaus to administer lower-level bureaus vertically through personnel control. Exploiting a stacked difference-in-differences strategy, we find that the reform significantly reduced air pollution. The effect was stronger in places where pollution was less likely to be affected by spillovers from other provinces, where local governments initially paid less attention to environmental protection, and where there was less economic importance. Further analysis shows that the reform reduced pollution by strengthening the pollution reduction incentives of local environmental officials, increasing the intensity of local environmental inspection, and promoting environmental compliance by polluting firms.

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环境管理集中化与空气污染:来自中国的证据
本文研究了环境管理集中化如何影响中国的空气污染。中国于 2016 年启动了一项改革,授权上级环保局通过人事控制对下级环保局进行垂直管理。利用叠加差分策略,我们发现改革显著减少了空气污染。在污染不太可能受到其他省份外溢效应影响、地方政府最初不太重视环境保护以及经济重要性较低的地方,改革效果更为明显。进一步的分析表明,改革通过加强地方环保官员减少污染的积极性、加大地方环保检查力度以及促进污染企业遵守环保规定来减少污染。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management publishes theoretical and empirical papers devoted to specific natural resources and environmental issues. For consideration, papers should (1) contain a substantial element embodying the linkage between economic systems and environmental and natural resources systems or (2) be of substantial importance in understanding the management and/or social control of the economy in its relations with the natural environment. Although the general orientation of the journal is toward economics, interdisciplinary papers by researchers in other fields of interest to resource and environmental economists will be welcomed.
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