Plausibly Exogenous [1708] - Promotion (10/06/2024)

LHS Variable
Water pollution reduction

RHS Variable
Local officials’ career incentives

Source of Exogenous Variation
A natural experiment set in China in which the central government changed the local political promotion criteria and thus incentivized local officials to reduce border pollution along specific criteria

- Kahn, Li, and Zhao (2015), “Water pollution progress at borders: the role of changes in China's political promotion incentives”