The Impacts of the Sanitation Campaign on Improving Living Environments: Evidence From Rural China

IF 2.1 3区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI:10.1111/1467-8489.70011

Qingen Gai, Chengzheng Li, Xiong Xiao

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Abstract

To narrow the gap in living environments between rural and urban areas, the Chinese government launched a nationwide sanitation campaign to improve the rural living environment. This paper uses rural household survey data and employs an econometric approach to evaluate the various effects of this top-down sanitation campaign. The empirical results indicate that the environmental benefits of the sanitation campaign are statistically significant, whereas the short-term health and income effects are not. Villages completing the sanitation campaign (or with higher completion scores) enjoy a relatively better living environment: a statistically significant decline in the probability of having household waste, domestic sewage and human and animal excrement (odour) near homes. In addition, we also find that rural sanitation campaigns stimulate environmentally friendly behaviours of rural residents.

JEL Classification: P28, P25, Q52

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卫生运动对改善生活环境的影响：来自中国农村的证据

为了缩小城乡生活环境的差距，中国政府在全国范围内开展了一项改善农村生活环境的卫生运动。本文使用农村住户调查数据，并采用计量经济学方法来评估这种自上而下的卫生运动的各种效果。实证结果表明，卫生运动的环境效益在统计上显著，而短期的健康和收入效应则不显著。完成卫生运动的村庄（或完成得分较高的村庄）享有相对较好的生活环境：家庭垃圾、生活污水和人畜粪便（气味）的概率在统计上显著下降。此外，我们还发现农村卫生运动促进了农村居民的环境友好行为。JEL分类：P28， P25, Q52

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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 管理科学-农业经济与政策

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6.30

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期刊介绍： The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE) provides a forum for innovative and scholarly work in agricultural and resource economics. First published in 1997, the Journal succeeds the Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics, upholding the tradition of these long-established journals. Accordingly, the editors are guided by the following objectives: -To maintain a high standard of analytical rigour offering sufficient variety of content so as to appeal to a broad spectrum of both academic and professional economists and policymakers. -In maintaining the tradition of its predecessor journals, to combine articles with policy reviews and surveys of key analytical issues in agricultural and resource economics.