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- Title
Air Pollution Control: An Analysis of China's Industrial Off-Peak Production Policy through the Quasi-Natural Experiment Method.
- Authors
Xu, Xindi; Wang, Qinyun; Hu, Haichao; Wang, Xinjun
- Abstract
To reduce frequent heavy air pollution, the Chinese government suspends clinker production during the heating season in most areas of the North, which is known as the Clinker Off-peak Production Policy. The questions regarding such a repressive production policy for environmental purposes are whether this policy is effective in reducing pollutants and whether the marginal cost is high. To explore these policy effects, a quasi-experiment is designed, taking advantage of spatial-temporal variations in policy implementation. With the triple-difference method and environmental satellite data, the effect on air pollution is estimated to be −1900 μg/m2 (~2%) of SO2 and −3200 μg/m2 (~10%) of NO2. With daily price information and the difference-in-differences method, the market effect is estimated to be an approximately 10% increase in annual sale prices. The marginal cost estimated through a back-of-the-envelope analysis is 32 k RMB yuan/ton SO2 or NO2, which is 24.88 times the pollutant discharge fee but which better reflects the pollutant shadow price.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL pollution; AIR pollution control; DIRECT costing; AIR pollution; COST estimates; POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL policy
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2021, Vol 13, Issue 9, p4808
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su13094808