The health and welfare effects of environmental governance: Evidence from China.

Environmental regulations aim to reduce pollution and improve air quality and the health of residents. However, there is a lack of research focusing on the health and welfare effects of low-carbon city pilot policies. In this context, this study takes China's low-carbon city pilot policy as an entry point, focuses on the health effects of public environmental governance, and systematically investigates the effects and mechanisms of low-carbon city development on the health of middle-aged and elderly people by applying the difference-in-differences method.

Can environmental protection and banking development be synergized?-an analysis based on the low-carbon city pilot in China.

The low-carbon city (LCC) pilot policy is significant in tackling carbon emission reduction and environmental protection. Several studies have demonstrated that LCC policy dramatically decreases air pollution in cities for environmental preservation, while there is a shortage of research on banking development. Using city-level data from 2005 to 2018 in China, we examine the impact of the LCC pilot policy on the growth of the banking sector by using a difference-in-difference (DID) model and analyze the underlying transmission mechanism.