Impact of air pollution on urbanization:evidence at China’s city level

作     者：Yanchun Yi Yixin Geng Jiawen Wu Yinling Liu Yanchun Yi;Yixin Geng;Jiawen Wu;Yinling Liu

作者机构：School of Economics&ManagementHuzhou CollegeHuzhou 313000China School of Economics and ManagementHubei Normal UniversityHuangshi 435002China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Population,Resources and Environment》 (中国人口·资源与环境（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第22卷第3期

页      面：268-274页

学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 07[理学] 070602[理学-大气物理学与大气环境] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

基　　金：supported by Preliminary Funding Project of Hubei Provincial Department of Education[Grant No.22ZD100] 

主　　题：Air pollution Urbanization Influencing mechanism 2SLS Night light data Instrumental variable 

摘      要：This paper investigates the effect and transmission mechanism of air pollution on urbanization based on data from China’s 107 cities during 2005–*** order to identify the impact of air pollution on China’s urbanization,we utilized night light data to represent the level of urbanization and used temperature inversion as an instrumental variable to mitigate endogeneity within the two-stage least squares *** results suggest that air pollution significantly slowed China’s urbanization process with economic growth acting as the transmission *** heterogeneity analyses revealed that air pollution had a greater negative impact on urbanization in northern regions than that in southern regions,and a greater negative impact in resource-oriented cities than that in non-resource-based *** also find that air pollution was to the detriment of urbanization in larger cities,which have more than 3 million residents,while it did not have a significant impact on Type II large cities,which have fewer than 3 million residents.