Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy

Air quality in China is notoriously poor. Ambient concentrations of Total Suspended Particulates (TSP) 1981-1993 were more than double China's National Annual Mean Ambient Air Quality Standard of 200 mg/m-3 (Xiaohui Bi et al., 2007) and five times the level that prevailed in the U.S. before pas...

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Main Authors: Almond, Douglas (Author), Chen, Yuyu (Author), Greenstone, Michael (Contributor), Li, Hongbin (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association, 2010-03-01T20:49:33Z.
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