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Transportation Networks, Short-term Mobility, and Pollution Exposure: Evidence from High-Speed Rail in China

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  • Panle Jia Barwick
  • Dave Donaldson
  • Shanjun Li
  • Yatang Lin
  • Deyu Rao

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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, exposure based on the pollution levels at travelers’ actual locations—and evaluate how EPE was affected by the country’s high-speed railway network, even while holding pollution itself constant. Our estimates imply a reduction in EPE that corresponds to a mortality benefit of 21.3 million life-years saved, primarily due to travelers changing their destinations towards locations with predictably cleaner air.

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  • Panle Jia Barwick & Dave Donaldson & Shanjun Li & Yatang Lin & Deyu Rao, 2022. "Transportation Networks, Short-term Mobility, and Pollution Exposure: Evidence from High-Speed Rail in China," NBER Working Papers 30462, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30462
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    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • R41 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise

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