“文明城市”评选与环境污染治理:一项准自然实验  

“Civilized City” Selection and Environmental Pollution Control:A Quasi-natural Experiment

作　　者：逯进[1] 赵亚楠 苏妍 Lu Jin;Zhao Yanan;Su Yan(School of Economics,Qingdao University,Qingdao 266071,China;China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research,Central University of Finance and Economics,Beijing 100081,China)

机构地区：[1]青岛大学经济学院,山东青岛266071 [2]中央财经大学人力资本与劳动经济研究中心,北京100081

出　　处：《财经研究》2020年第4期109-124,共16页Journal of Finance and Economics

基　　金：国家社会科学基金项目(18BJL117);全国统计科学研究项目(2017LZ42)。

摘　　要："文明城市"评选是以建设文明和谐的社会环境为导向,以此推进社会经济可持续发展的城市治理新模式,污染治理是其设立的重要目标。文章基于2003-2016年全国228个地级市的面板数据,运用PSM-DID方法全面考察了"文明城市"评选对环境污染的影响特征及其作用机制。主要结论为:首先,"文明城市"评选可以显著改善城市环境,同时在考虑了"低碳城市"和"智慧城市"以及"环境保护法"等政策对环境污染的影响后,虽然"文明城市"评选的作用有所下降,但是其减污效果依然十分显著;其次,机制分析表明,"文明城市"评选能够有效促进技术创新和产业结构升级,进而改善了环境污染;最后,异质性分析表明,"文明城市"评选对环境污染的改善因城市的人口规模和经济规模的不同而存在差异。文章的研究结果为"文明城市"这一城市品牌评选活动可以有效改善城市环境提供了实证支持,为进一步提高城市环境的综合治理能力提供了思路。The "Civilized City" selection is guided by the construction of a civilized and harmonious social environment to promote a new model of urban governance for sustainable social and economic development. Pollution control is an important goal for its establishment. Based on the panel data of 228 prefecturelevel cities nationwide from 2003 to 2016,the article comprehensively examines the impact of "Civilized City" selection on environmental pollution using the PSM-DID method.The main conclusions are as follows:Firstly,the selection of "Civilized City" can significantly improve the urban environment. At the same time,considering the impact of policies such as "Low-carbon City","Smart City" and "environmental protection laws" on environmental pollution,the selection has declined,but its pollution reduction effect is still very significant. Secondly,the mechanism analysis shows that the selection of "Civilized City" can effectively promote technological innovation and industrial structure upgrade to improve environmental pollution. Finally,the heterogeneity analysis shows that the improvement of environmental pollution in the "Civilized City" selection varies depending on the size of the city’s population and economy. The research results in this article provide empirical support for "Civilized City",a city brand selection activity,which can effectively improve the urban environment,and provide ideas for further improving the comprehensive management capacity of the urban environment.

关 键 词：“文明城市” 环境污染治理 PSM-DID 

分 类 号：F120[经济管理—世界经济]