Citizen Participation and Government Accountability: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Pollution Appeals in China
Abstract
This paper reports a national-scale field experiment about how citizen participation affects the enforcement of pollution standards in China. Using data publicized by the country’s Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS), we identify in real-time firms that violate national emission standards and ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2021/he-citizen-participation-government-accountability