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A Comment on "Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China" by Sebastian Axbard and Zichen Deng

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  • La Nauze, Andrea
  • Tan, Tze Yong

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Axbard and Deng (2024) exploit the rollout of new pollution monitors in China in 2015 in 177 medium-size cities to study the effect of air-quality monitors on enforcement actions by local governments and air quality. In their main difference-in-difference analysis, they identify the change in the probability of enforcement for firms that are close to versus further away from the monitor. They find that being within 10km of a monitor increases the probability that a firm receives any enforcement action by 0.0033 (standard error 0.00056) relative to a mean of 0.0046. Computationally, we successfully reproduce the main claims of the paper. We observe minor coding anomalies that do not have a material impact. We find that the main result on all enforcement is robust to all robustness checks: (1) randomization inference (2) alternative fixed effects and (3) multiple hypothesis testing.

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  • La Nauze, Andrea & Tan, Tze Yong, 2024. "A Comment on "Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China" by Sebastian Axbard and Zichen Deng," I4R Discussion Paper Series 144, The Institute for Replication (I4R).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:i4rdps:144
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    Keywords

    Replication; Reproducibility; Robustness; Accountability; Regulatory Enforcement; Pollution; China;
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    JEL classification:

    • K32 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • P25 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
    • P28 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Natural Resources; Environment
    • Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling

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