ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
Campaign-style governance of air pollution in China? A comprehensive analysis of the central environmental protection inspection.
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- The impact of China's low-carbon city pilot policy on public health expenditure.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Campaign-style enforcement and corporate environmental governance: evidence from China's central environmental inspection.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Role of short-term campaigns and long-term mechanisms for air pollution control: lessons learned from the "2 + 26" city cluster in China.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Article
- The causal configurations of provincial health policy innovation in China: an analysis of the food safety standard filing policy.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- An evolutionary game study on the collaborative governance of environmental pollution: from the perspective of regulatory capture.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Central environmental protection inspection (CEPI) is a major institutional innovation in China's environmental governance, but its effectiveness in improving air quality is still unclear. However, the effectiveness of CEPI is of great significance and can be regarded as an important reference for deepening the reform of environmental governance system in China. This article takes the CEPI as a quasi-natural experiment and uses the regression discontinuity design (RDD) and the difference-in-differences (DID) methods to examine the effectiveness of this policy. The study found that the first round of CEPI reduced the air pollution of cities in the inspected provinces in a short time. Moreover, this positive policy effect persisted in the aftermath of the inspection, but this long-term effect is mainly reflected in PM
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