Does environmental regulation improve public health? Evidence from China's Two Control Zones policy.

ABSTRACT: Improving public health is the premise of sustainable human development and an essential condition of economic growth. However, increasing severe environmental pollution poses a threat to public health. Implementing environmental regulation policy has become a meaningful way to control environmental pollution and the basis and guarantee for achieving public health. This paper aims to study the impact of environmental regulation on public health. The Two Control Zones (TCZ) policy is the earliest and stricter environmental regulation in China. Based on the policy experiment of TCZ, this paper analyzes the role of TCZ policy in improving public health using the DID model and data from 112 cities. The study finds that the TCZ policy can significantly improve public health, and this improvemen

SUBMITTER: Yang N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9902943 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature