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The effectiveness of consumption tax on the reduction of car pollution in China

Exposure to airborne pollution has substantial adverse health consequences (Cohen et al, 2004). Governments around the world have paid attention to this problem and started to take actions to mitigate it harmful effects. In this paper, we investigate how a change in the consumption tax structure affects car emissions by exploiting exogenous variation from a natural experiment that took place in China. Our results show that this tax policy, which doubled the imposition paid on cars with large engines, reduced the emissions of all the pollutants studied, with the most significant decrease of 11% noted in Particulate Matter and Carbon Monoxide.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper Series ; No. 15

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Arcila, Andres
Chen, Tao
Lu, Xiaolan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Waterloo, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF)
(wo)
Waterloo
(wann)
2018

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Arcila, Andres
  • Chen, Tao
  • Lu, Xiaolan
  • University of Waterloo, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF)

Entstanden

  • 2018

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