| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22804 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22804 |
| Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China | |
| Matilde Bombardini; Bingjing Li | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-11-07 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Has the expansion in exports affected pollution and health outcomes across different prefectures in China in the two decades between 1990 and 2010? We exploit variation in the initial industrial composition to gauge the effect of export expansion due to the decline in tariffs faced by Chinese exporters. We construct two export shocks at the prefecture level: (i) PollutionExportShock represents the pollution content of export expansion and is measured in pounds of pollutants per worker; (ii) ExportShock measures export expansion in dollars per worker. The two measures differ because prefectures specialize in different products: while two prefectures may experience the same shock in dollar terms, the one specializing in the dirty sector has a larger PollutionExportShock. We instrument export shocks using the change in tariffs faced by Chinese producers exporting to the rest of the world. We find that the pollution content of export affected pollution and mortality. A one standard deviation increase in PollutionExportShock increases infant mortality by 2.2 deaths per thousand live births, which is about 13% of the standard deviation of infant mortality change during the period. The dollar value of export expansion tends to reduce mortality, but is not always statistically significant. We show that the channel through which exports affect mortality is pollution concentration: a one standard deviation increase in PollutionExportShock increases SO2 concentration by 5.4 micrograms per cubic meter (the average is around 60). We find a negative, but insignificant effect on pollution of the dollar-value export shocks, a potential “technique” effect whereby higher income drives demand for clean environment. We find that only infant mortality related to cardio-respiratory conditions responds to exports shocks, while deaths due to accidents and other causes are not affected. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22804 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580476 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Matilde Bombardini,Bingjing Li. Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China. 2016. |
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