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Do people have a negative impression of government on polluted days? Evidence from Chinese Cities

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  • Qingling Shi
  • Feng Guo

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Chinese governments play a key role in providing environmental public goods. Urban air quality is a significant indicator with which people evaluate the effects of governments’ environmental regulations and investments. This study aims to investigate how people's impression of government varies with air pollution in Chinese cities. Using the Baidu online search index on the specific keyword ‘corruption’ to represent public attitude toward the government, our estimations show that an increase in air pollution level yields a significant increase in online searches on this word. Such an effect is more significant on heavily polluted or severely polluted days. In further estimations, we find that people will not pay more attention to the polluters themselves on polluted days. These results are consistent with previous studies that air pollution causes people to be more depressed, selfish and sensitive to fairness. We conclude that efforts on air quality improvement will create a positive impression of government.

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  • Qingling Shi & Feng Guo, 2019. "Do people have a negative impression of government on polluted days? Evidence from Chinese Cities," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 62(5), pages 797-817, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:62:y:2019:i:5:p:797-817
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2018.1443801
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    1. Guo, Feng & Lin, Zhiyuan & Lyu, Xiaoliang & Shi, Qingling, 2023. "Does air pollution influence music sentiment? Measuring music sentiment by machine learning," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).
    2. Shi, Qingling & Shi, Chenchen & Guo, Feng, 2020. "Political Blue Sky: Evidence from the Local Annual “Two Sessions” in China," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(C).
    3. Jiaping Zhang & Xiaomei Gong & Zhongkun Zhu & Zhenyu Zhang, 2023. "Trust cost of environmental risk to government: the impact of Internet use," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 25(6), pages 5363-5392, June.

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