 Temporary driving restrictions, air pollution, and contemporaneous health: Evidence from ChinaQing Han, Ying Liu and Zilong Lu Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020, vol. 84, issue C 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. Keywords: Driving restrictions; Air quality; Mortality; China (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:regeco:v:84:y:2020:i:c:s016604622030257x DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2020.103572 Access Statistics for this article Regional Science and Urban Economics is currently edited by D.P McMillen and Y. Zenou More articles in Regional Science and Urban Economics from Elsevier |
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