Changing Population Exposure to Pollution in China's Special Economic Zones
AEA Papers and Proceedings
vol. 111,
May 2021
(pp. 406-09)
Abstract
Martin and Zhang (2020) show that the increase in manufacturing output in China's special economic zones significantly increased air pollution. In this complementary paper, we document that widespread migration into these industrial clusters between 2000 and 2010 did little to change overall population exposure to pollution. We show using satellite air pollution data that there is much heterogeneity across zones and that most population growth occurred in relatively cleaner zones, supporting recent literature that documents local willingness to make location decisions based on environmental quality (Chen et al. 2019, Khanna et al. 2020).Citation
Martin, Leslie A., and Katie Zhang. 2021. "Changing Population Exposure to Pollution in China's Special Economic Zones." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 111: 406-09. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20211074Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- Q53 Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
- R32 Other Spatial Production and Pricing Analysis
- O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
- P28 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Natural Resources; Energy; Environment
- R21 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
- O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- P25 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics