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Air Pollution 1 Location: B005 Session Chair: Yujie Lin, Tianjin University | |
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Estimating the benefits of China’s campaign against fine particle pollution since 2013 ESSEC Business School, France In 2013 China launched a campaign against ambient fine particle (PM2.5) air pollution, spearheaded by the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (APPCAP). This paper presents estimates of the reductions in PM2.5 exposure achieved by this campaign, as well as the resulting health benefits. Using panel data covering 239 countries and territories from 2000 to 2019, paired with a quasi-experimental approach based on a synthetic counterfactual, I find that the campaign launched in 2013 reduced PM2.5 exposure of the average Chinese resident in 2019 by over 20%. While there are air quality improvements in all provinces, some of the largest effects appear in Central and Eastern China. Following the Global Burden of Disease methodology, the air quality campaign reduced annual PM2.5-related deaths by between 220 and 280 thousand depending on estimation strategy. Monetizing the mortality reductions with recent values of statistical life suggests total benefits of up to 1 trillion Renminbi or 1% of Gross Domestic Product. | |