Yu Qin

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the distributional impacts of high-speed rail upgrades in China, which have improved passengers' access to highspeed train services in the city nodes but have left the peripheral counties along the upgraded railway lines bypassed by the services.

TL;DR: This article investigated the impact of air pollution on people's interest in emigration and found that searches on emigration will grow by approximately 2.3-4.8% the next day if today's air quality index (AQI) is increased by 100 points.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether better road access could help improve their livelihood and reduce rural poverty, and they use three waves of a primary panel survey at the household level conducted in 18 remote natural villages in China to study how road access shapes farmers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used four waves of a primary panel household survey conducted in 17 remote natural villages in China to study how road access shapes farmers' production patterns, input use, and rural poverty.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the difference-in-differences (DID) method to show that new HSR routes in China leads to a 20.5 log-point reduction in the number of passenger vehicles and a 15.7 log point reduction in freight vehicles running on parallel highways, which translates into an annual reduction of 14.76 million tons of CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.