The impact of low-carbon pilots policy on health
利用个人层面死亡记录，量化中国低碳试点政策对老年人污染相关死亡率的影响，发现该政策使死亡率降低12.6%，主要通过改善空气质量实现。
This paper quantifies the health benefits of China’s Low-Carbon Pilot (LCP) policy using individual-level mortality records. Exploiting staggered policy adoption and estimating dynamic treatment effects with the Sun and Abraham (2021) approach, we find that LCP implementation reduces pollution-related mortality among older adults by 12.6%, with the largest declines in cardiovascular, ischemic heart, and cerebrovascular deaths. The mechanism evidence points to improved air quality—achieved mainly through stronger fiscal support and tighter regulatory enforcement—and the effects are amplified in places led by younger, career-motivated officials, underscoring sizeable health benefits from climate-oriented environmental regulation.