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The impact of quality of life on industrial and agricultural production and environmental efficiency in China's provinces

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  • Li Yang
  • Yung‐ho Chiu
  • Tzu‐Han Chang

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While most related topics focus on industrial production, economics, and environmental pollution, few studies discuss industrial production, economic development, environmental pollution, and quality of life together, and those that do fail to recognize how QoL influences agriculture and industry development issues. This research thus takes QoL as an exogenous variable and places agricultural production efficiency and industrial production efficiency as two parallel stages into one stage. The finding is that its addition modifies the overall efficiency of the region, as none of the 30 provinces has reached the efficiency frontier, and there is room for improvement in all of them.

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  • Li Yang & Yung‐ho Chiu & Tzu‐Han Chang, 2023. "The impact of quality of life on industrial and agricultural production and environmental efficiency in China's provinces," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(2), pages 1054-1072, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:mgtdec:v:44:y:2023:i:2:p:1054-1072
    DOI: 10.1002/mde.3731
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