Concerns over the pace, scope and causes of environmental degradation have led to a renewed interest in the way environmental and economic policies interact. This paper first reviews the main causes f
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Panel data for 30 Chinese provinces (i.e., excluding Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Tibet) from 2000 to 2017 comprise the basic data set for this paper. We use province-level data since provinces are t