Thesis
Air quality management areas and pollution : evidence from the UK
- Creator
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- Awarding institution
- University of Strathclyde
- Date of award
- 2021
- Thesis identifier
- T16138
- Person Identifier (Local)
- 201762361
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- Department, School or Faculty
- Abstract
- This paper investigates the effect of air quality management areas (AQMAs)-local, non-binding commitments to improve air quality -on pollution levels in the United Kingdom. I exploit the staggered declaration of the policy which is triggered when a local authority marginally and temporarily exceeds national air quality benchmarks. The institutional setting thus creates a natural control group, namely local authorities with pollution levels just below the thresholds for the time being. The difference-in-differences estimation suggests that AQMAs fail to lead to decreases in average NO2 concentration and the number of days on which daily NO2 limits are exceeded.
- Advisor / supervisor
- Gehrsitz, Markus
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