Pollution

Improved Transportation Networks Facilitate Adaptation to Pollution and Temperature Extremes

Can the enhanced mobility created by transportation infrastructure investments help people to avoid environmental extremes? We use transaction records from China's card payment system to measure experienced pollution exposure (EPE) - that is, …

The Healthcare Cost of Air Pollution: Evidence from the World's Largest Payment Network

This paper exploits the universe of credit- and debit-card transactions in China during 2013-2015 and provides the first nationwide analysis of the healthcare cost of PM2.5 for a developing country. We leverage spatial spillovers of PM2.5 from …