Does the Government’s Environmental Attention Affect Ambient Pollution? Empirical Research on Chinese Cities

Shan Huang, Yan Ding and Pierre Failler
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Shan Huang: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan Institute of Technology, Hengyang 421200, China
Yan Ding: Business School, Hunan Institute of Technology, Hengyang 421200, China
Pierre Failler: Economics and Finance Group, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3DE, UK

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 6, 1-19

Abstract: Environmental pollution has attracted growing government attention. We employ a series of panel data regression models to measure and analyze the impact of environmental attention of 284 prefecture-level municipal governments on ambient pollution in China. The results show that: (1) The improvement of government environmental attention can curb ambient pollution. (2) The impact of government environmental attention on ambient pollution is heterogeneous in the difference of regional and local environmental pollution severity. (3) Government environmental attention inhibits ambient pollution through green development and industrial upgrading. The conclusions of this paper provide evidence and implications for environmental regulation in developing countries and cities.

Keywords: government environmental attention; ambient pollution; heterogeneity; mechanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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