Research Article
The Impact of Government Environmental Accountability on Green Total Factor Productivity Growth: from the Perspective of China's Experiment
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.24-5-2024.2350061, author={Shangwen Zhuang and Jie Qin and Yuqi Wei and Rui Liu}, title={The Impact of Government Environmental Accountability on Green Total Factor Productivity Growth: from the Perspective of China's Experiment}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mathematical Statistics and Economic Analysis, MSEA 2024, May 24--26, 2024, Jinan, China}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={MSEA}, year={2024}, month={10}, keywords={government regulation; environmental management; local officials; green total factor productivity; difference in differences method}, doi={10.4108/eai.24-5-2024.2350061} }- Shangwen Zhuang
Jie Qin
Yuqi Wei
Rui Liu
Year: 2024
The Impact of Government Environmental Accountability on Green Total Factor Productivity Growth: from the Perspective of China's Experiment
MSEA
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.24-5-2024.2350061
Abstract
Environmental protection and economic development are essential issues for achieving high-quality and sustainable economic development. This work focuses on this "natural experiment" conditions provided by China's phased and regional implementation of government environment responsibility regulation pilot policy, and uses the Difference-in-Differences (DID) method to analyze the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2006 to 2019 to explore the causal relationship between government environmental regulation and Green Total Factor Productivity (GTFP). The results show that the implementation of government environment accountability regulation pilot policy has a significant effect on GTFP improvement, where technological improvements play an essential mediating role. In addition, the heterogeneity of economic development levels and the age of local officials also considerably affect the effectiveness of government environmental regulation. The effectiveness of government environment accountability regulation pilot policy was found to be stronger in economically underdeveloped areas or those with older local officials.
