Data · dataset · 2025
Uncovering the Impact of the “Zero-waste City” Pilot Policy on Urban Green Innovation Efficiency
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Addressing environmental challenges throughout urban development can spur green innovation.
Description
Despite its central role in solid-waste governance, the Zero-waste City initiative’s effects and mechanisms for urban green innovation remain unclear. This study quantifies the causal impact of China’s Zero-waste City pilot on urban green innovation efficiency (GIE).
Using a panel of 252 prefecture-level cities (2012–2022), we construct a city-level GIE index via a super-efficiency slack-based measure (SBM) and designate the 11 first-batch pilots as the experimental group. From the remaining cities, we select 39 comparable controls using a propensity-score matching (PSM) model based on six pre-policy covariates, including GIE, economic development, foreign investment, population density, industrial structure, and urbanization.
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Policy effects are evaluated with a difference-in-differences (DID) model, complemented by six robustness checks. Mechanisms of policy-driven GIE promotion are further examined using patent application counts and the frequency of “Zero-waste City”-related terms in government work reports.
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- DOI doi.org/10.17632/8m4rybcrps.1 ↗
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Topics
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- Earth & Environmental Science · Economics & Finance
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
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