Air pollution and defensive expenditures: Evidence from particulate-filtering facemasks

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Volumn 92, Issue , 2018, Pages 517-536

  Zhang, Junjie ^a   Mu, Quan ^b  

^a DUKE KUNSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; China; Defensive expenditures; Facemasks

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; SALES;

AGGREGATED MODELING; AIR POLLUTION EXPOSURES; AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; DEFENSIVE EXPENDITURES; FACEMASKS; PREVENTIVE MEASURES;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; AVOIDANCE REACTION; COMMODITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EXPENDITURE; HEALTH IMPACT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; URBAN POPULATION;

CHINA;

EID: 85027263589     PISSN: 00950696     EISSN: 10960449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2017.07.006     Document Type: Article

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