The effect of innovation-driven development on pollution reduction: Empirical evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 121047
Author(s):  
Kang Gao ◽  
Yijun Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Pollution Reduction

Angry or Weary? How Violence Impacts Attitudes toward Peace among Darfurian Refugees

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 844-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Hazlett
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Exposure To Violence ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Effects Of Violence ◽  
Rule Out

Does exposure to violence motivate individuals to support further violence or to seek peace? Such questions are central to our understanding of how conflicts evolve, terminate, and recur. Yet, convincing empirical evidence as to which response dominates—even in a specific case—has been elusive, owing to the inability to rule out confounding biases. This article employs a natural experiment based on the indiscriminacy of violence within villages in Darfur to examine how refugees’ experiences of violence affect their attitudes toward peace. The results are consistent with a pro-peace or “weary” response: individuals directly harmed by violence were more likely to report that peace is possible and less likely to demand execution of their enemies. This provides microlevel evidence supporting earlier country-level work on “war-weariness” and extends the growing literature on the effects of violence on individuals by including attitudes toward peace as an important outcome. These findings suggest that victims harmed by violence during war can play a positive role in settlement and reconciliation processes.

scholarly journals Ecological Civilization Demonstration Zone, Air Pollution Reduction, and Political Promotion Tournament in China: Empirical Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 11880
Author(s):  
Haijie Wang ◽  
Yong Geng ◽  
Jingxue Zhang ◽  
Xiqiang Xia ◽  
Yanchao Feng
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Pollution Reduction ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ecological Civilization ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Binary Logit ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Promotion Tournament

Using the ecological civilization demonstration zone as a quasi-natural experiment, this study has explored the effect of it on air pollution in China by employing the difference-in-differences model and the spatial difference-in-differences model, and further tested the political promotion tournament in China by employing the binary logit model. The results show that the ecological civilization demonstration zone has basically and effectively reduced air pollution, except for carbon monoxide and ozone. In addition, the spatial spillover effects of the ecological civilization demonstration zone on air pollution are not only basically supported among the treated cities, but also extremely established in the untreated cities neighboring the treated cities. Furthermore, no clear evidence supports the establishment of the political promotion tournament in China, while local cadres tend to cope with the assessment of higher officials passively rather than actively. Overall, this study sheds light on the coordination of economic development and ecological civilization from the perspective of the career concerns of local cadres.

scholarly journals Increasing Block Rate Electricity Pricing and Propensity to Purchase Electrical Appliances: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Russia

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 6954
Author(s):  
Salim Turdaliev
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Electricity Pricing ◽  
Energy Policies ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Residential Electricity ◽  
The Relationship

This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between the increasing-block-rate (IBR) pricing of electricity and the propensity of households to buy major electrical appliances. I use a variation from a natural experiment in Russia that introduced IBR pricing for residential electricity in a number of experimental regions in 2013. The study employs household-level panel data, which records, among others, whether the household has purchased any major electrical appliances during the last three months. Using a difference-in-differences specification, I show that the purchase of major electrical appliances in the regions with IBR pricing has increased by more than 20% (or more than two percentage points). The findings suggest that price-based energy policies may be an effective tool in shaping the behaviour of households.

scholarly journals Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Etienne Dumont ◽  
Bernard Fortin ◽  
Nicolas Jacquemet ◽  
Bruce Shearer
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Natural Experiment
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