Journal article
Temporary driving restrictions, air pollution, and contemporaneous health: Evidence from China
Regional science and urban economics, Vol.84, p.103572
09/2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2020.103572
Abstract
We employ a temporary policy of driving restrictions in China to estimate the effect of traffic control on pollution. We then evaluate the health impact of pollution using the fixed effects instrumental variables approach. We show that the policy significantly improves the city-level air quality as measured by CO, PM10, NO2, and API. The further station-level analysis displays that the effect substantially declines from 46.6% to 33.1% for CO and PM10 respectively to 14.5% and 18.3% with the decreasing size of the restriction area. Furthermore, we demonstrate the heterogeneous impact on PM10 by road density. We then find that a 1% decrease in PM10 reduces the daily air-pollution-related standardized mortality by 0.313 per million people. The heterogeneity analysis indicates that the impact is largely driven by the females at the age of 65 years and older.
•We evaluate the effect of temporary driving restrictions on air quality and health using the fixed effects instrumental variables approach.•We show that the policy significantly improves CO and PM10 by 46.6% and 33.1% respectively.•We demonstrate the heterogeneous impact of the traffic control on PM10 by road density.•We find that a 1% decrease in PM10 reduces the daily air-pollution-related standardized mortality by 0.313 per million people. .•The heterogeneity analysis indicates that the impact of PM10 on mortality is largely driven by the females at the age of 65 years and older.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Temporary driving restrictions, air pollution, and contemporaneous health: Evidence from China
- Creators
- Qing Han - Department of Economics, The University of Iowa, 108 John Pappajohn Business Building, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United StatesYing Liu - School of Economics, Shandong University, 27 Shanda South Road, Jinan, 250100, ChinaZilong Lu - Shandong Province Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 16992 Jingshi Road, Jinan, 250014, China
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Regional science and urban economics, Vol.84, p.103572
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2020.103572
- ISSN
- 0166-0462
- eISSN
- 1879-2308
- Grant note
- 71803099 / National Natural Science Foundation of China (https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001809)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2020
- Academic Unit
- Economics
- Record Identifier
- 9984066101202771
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