Political spillover effects of environmental policy: Evidence from China

IF 13.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI:10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107936

Mengmeng Xu, Zihao Wang

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Abstract

This paper explores the causal relationship between automatic environmental monitoring and political trust. We utilize staggered monitoring automation as exogenous shocks to assess the impact on residents' political trust. Our findings reveal a significant and positive effect of monitoring automation on political trust, a factor rarely considered by most existing studies. The mechanism investigation shows that monitoring automation has heightened residents' environmental concerns and increased their expectations regarding the government's role in pollution prevention. This paper offers a pioneering quantitative assessment of feedback from residents due to a specific environmental policy, suggesting that potential spillover effect should be considered.

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环境政策的政治溢出效应：来自中国的证据

本文探讨了环境自动监测与政治信任之间的因果关系。我们利用交错监测自动化作为外生冲击来评估其对居民政治信任的影响。我们的研究结果表明，监测自动化对政治信任有显著的积极影响，而大多数现有研究很少考虑这一因素。机制调查表明，监测自动化提高了居民对环境的关注，增加了他们对政府在污染防治中的作用的期望。本文开创性地对特定环境政策引起的居民反馈进行了定量评估，表明应考虑潜在的溢出效应。

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来源期刊

Energy Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

18.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

524

期刊介绍： Energy Economics is a field journal that focuses on energy economics and energy finance. It covers various themes including the exploitation, conversion, and use of energy, markets for energy commodities and derivatives, regulation and taxation, forecasting, environment and climate, international trade, development, and monetary policy. The journal welcomes contributions that utilize diverse methods such as experiments, surveys, econometrics, decomposition, simulation models, equilibrium models, optimization models, and analytical models. It publishes a combination of papers employing different methods to explore a wide range of topics. The journal's replication policy encourages the submission of replication studies, wherein researchers reproduce and extend the key results of original studies while explaining any differences. Energy Economics is indexed and abstracted in several databases including Environmental Abstracts, Fuel and Energy Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, GEOBASE, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Economic Literature, INSPEC, and more.