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Does environmental regulation reduce China’s haze pollution? An empirical analysis based on panel quantile regression
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 10, p e0240723 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science, 2020.
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Abstract
- Haze pollution in China is very serious and has become the source of mortality, affecting the health and lives of residents. The Chinese government adopts different policy measures to reduce haze pollution. The impact of different types of environmental regulations on haze pollution has become a hot topic for academics and government departments. Based on panel data from 2005-2017, this paper studies the effect of different types of environmental regulations on haze pollution in 30 provinces of China using a panel quantile model. The results show that when haze pollution changes from a low quantile to a high quantile, the marginal impact of command-and-control environmental regulation on haze pollution changes from 0.122 to -0.332. Command-and-control environmental regulation can reduce haze pollution, but its impact is not significant. The main reason for this finding is that environmental law enforcement is not strict. The marginal impact of economically restrained environmental regulation on haze pollution changes from -14.389 to 49.939. Economically restrained environmental regulation can reduce haze pollution in low quantiles, but not in high quantiles. The collection of sewage charges fees is far less than the total profit, which has no deterrent effect on enterprises. The marginal impact of public participation in environmental regulation on haze pollution changes from 0.154 to -0.002. Public participation in environmental regulation cannot reduce haze pollution in low quantiles, but can in high quantiles; however its impact becomes insignificant. This study reveals the quantile-based discrepancy in the effect of environmental regulation on haze pollution, and offers a new perspective for research on the effects of environmental regulation.
- Subjects :
- China
Asia
Natural resource economics
Economics
020209 energy
Science
Social Sciences
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Empirical Research
01 natural sciences
Profit (economics)
Geographical Locations
Environmental Law
Development Economics
Air Pollution
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Enforcement
Regulations
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Conservation Science
Multidisciplinary
Sewage
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Pollution
Environmental Regulations
Quantile regression
Social Control, Formal
Environmental law
Public participation
People and Places
Environmental science
Medicine
Engineering and Technology
Regression Analysis
Law and Legal Sciences
Sanitary Engineering
Economic Development
Environmental Protection
Panel data
Quantile
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....18f20b18fce621d8b2948f95b739bd7f