TY - JOUR
T1 - Tragedy of pollution: Does air pollution hinder China’s progress toward achieving common prosperity?
AU - Liu, Yang
AU - Wang, Kun
AU - Wang, Jianda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024.
PY - 2024/12
Y1 - 2024/12
N2 - Air pollution has emerged as a profoundly critical global environmental issue, primarily due to its adverse effects on human health and its impediment to national development. We investigate the spatial and heterogeneous impacts of air pollution on common prosperity across 295 cities in China from 2006 to 2020, using the spatial Durbin model. Moreover, our research explores the mediating effect of air pollution on common prosperity. The research results are summarized as follows: Firstly, there has been a distinct upward trend in China’s common prosperity in recent years. Secondly, air pollution significantly hinders common prosperity, and this impact shows a spatial spillover effect. Specifically, it not only affects the local realization of common prosperity but also has a detrimental effect on that of neighboring cities. Thirdly, heterogeneity analysis indicates that air pollution adversely affects the common prosperity of neighboring cities only in high-common-prosperity and high-air-pollution groups. Fourthly, air pollution hinders common prosperity by reducing the availability of human capital. This article offers a novel perspective on achieving common prosperity.
AB - Air pollution has emerged as a profoundly critical global environmental issue, primarily due to its adverse effects on human health and its impediment to national development. We investigate the spatial and heterogeneous impacts of air pollution on common prosperity across 295 cities in China from 2006 to 2020, using the spatial Durbin model. Moreover, our research explores the mediating effect of air pollution on common prosperity. The research results are summarized as follows: Firstly, there has been a distinct upward trend in China’s common prosperity in recent years. Secondly, air pollution significantly hinders common prosperity, and this impact shows a spatial spillover effect. Specifically, it not only affects the local realization of common prosperity but also has a detrimental effect on that of neighboring cities. Thirdly, heterogeneity analysis indicates that air pollution adversely affects the common prosperity of neighboring cities only in high-common-prosperity and high-air-pollution groups. Fourthly, air pollution hinders common prosperity by reducing the availability of human capital. This article offers a novel perspective on achieving common prosperity.
KW - Air pollution
KW - Common prosperity
KW - Human capital
KW - Spatial Durbin model (SDM)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85209777327&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10644-024-09838-z
DO - 10.1007/s10644-024-09838-z
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85209777327
SN - 1573-9414
VL - 57
JO - Economic Change and Restructuring
JF - Economic Change and Restructuring
IS - 6
M1 - 253
ER -