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发布日期：2018-11-12 02:54 来源：北京大学国家发展研究院
时间：2018年11月14日（周三）14：00-15：30
地点：北大国发院/中国经济研究中心致福轩会议室
主持人：张晓波、李力行、席天扬
主讲人：Junjie Zhang
题目：Turning a Blind Eye? On the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation in China
摘要：This paper provides evidence on the political economy of environmental data manipulation in China. We use a unique panel data set of 111 cities between 2001 and 2010. The data set includes reported daily air pollutant concentrations as well as demographic, education and experience characteristics of city party secretaries and mayors. We develop an innovative censored MLE strategy to estimate the proportion of manipulated blue-sky days for each city/year. Then we use the LASSO shrinkage technique to find potential predictors of city-level manipulation patterns among a large set of party secretary and mayor characteristics. We find that city party secretaries with elite undergraduate degrees are associated with 2.38 additional manipulated blue-sky days in a year. Furthermore, among elite educated party secretaries, females and those with prior research experience are associated with lower levels of manipulation. The patterns in the data are consistent with economic growth and promotion concerns being a possible explanation for increased manipulation under elite educated party secretaries.
主讲人简介：Junjie Zhang is Director of Environmental Research Center and Master of Environmental Policy (iMEP) Program at Duke Kunshan University, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics at Duke Kunshan University and in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. He is also a Senior Adviser of Asia Society. Prior to the current position, he was an associate professor in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Zhang's research centers on empirical issues in environmental and resource economics. He adopts an interdisciplinary approach that integrates social sciences, engineering and natural sciences to deal with environmental policy problems. His research topics cover air pollution, water resources, energy and climate change. Zhang holds a Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource Economics from Duke University, an M.S. and a B.S. in environmental engineering from Tsinghua University, and a B.A. in environmental economics and management from Renmin University of China.
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发布日期：2018-11-12 02:54 来源：北京大学国家发展研究院
时间：2018年11月14日（周三）14：00-15：30
地点：北大国发院/中国经济研究中心致福轩会议室
主持人：张晓波、李力行、席天扬
主讲人：Junjie Zhang
题目：Turning a Blind Eye? On the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation in China
摘要：This paper provides evidence on the political economy of environmental data manipulation in China. We use a unique panel data set of 111 cities between 2001 and 2010. The data set includes reported daily air pollutant concentrations as well as demographic, education and experience characteristics of city party secretaries and mayors. We develop an innovative censored MLE strategy to estimate the proportion of manipulated blue-sky days for each city/year. Then we use the LASSO shrinkage technique to find potential predictors of city-level manipulation patterns among a large set of party secretary and mayor characteristics. We find that city party secretaries with elite undergraduate degrees are associated with 2.38 additional manipulated blue-sky days in a year. Furthermore, among elite educated party secretaries, females and those with prior research experience are associated with lower levels of manipulation. The patterns in the data are consistent with economic growth and promotion concerns being a possible explanation for increased manipulation under elite educated party secretaries.
主讲人简介：Junjie Zhang is Director of Environmental Research Center and Master of Environmental Policy (iMEP) Program at Duke Kunshan University, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics at Duke Kunshan University and in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. He is also a Senior Adviser of Asia Society. Prior to the current position, he was an associate professor in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Zhang's research centers on empirical issues in environmental and resource economics. He adopts an interdisciplinary approach that integrates social sciences, engineering and natural sciences to deal with environmental policy problems. His research topics cover air pollution, water resources, energy and climate change. Zhang holds a Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource Economics from Duke University, an M.S. and a B.S. in environmental engineering from Tsinghua University, and a B.A. in environmental economics and management from Renmin University of China.
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