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The effects of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on air quality and public health
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The effects of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on air quality and public health
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Chen
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Chen
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Chen Chen
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Jin
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Yanhong
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Yanhong Jin
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chair
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Carl E
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Carl E Pray
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Gal Hochman
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2014
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2014-05
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The elevated air pollution level has frequently put China under the world’s spotlight. To better prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China had taken a series of radical control actions to improve air quality, including plant closure and relocation, temporary production halt or reduction, furnace replacement, and stringent traffic control along with additional Olympic transportation options. Such actions were carried out in a large geographic area including Beijing and five adjacent provinces, namely, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Shanxi and Tianjin, with a significant cost totaling up to over US$10 billion, which partly made the Beijing Games the most expensive Olympic Games in the history. The objective of this thesis is to investigate the Olympic effect on air quality and public health. In this study, both air quality data and hospital inpatient records (HIR) before and after the Olympic Games are collected for the Olympic city (Beijing) and non-Olympic city (Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei province). The official daily air pollution index (API) published by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China (MEP) is used to measure air quality. The HIR are collected from both surgical and respiratory departments in one main hospital of each city. Both data cover the time span from June 5th, 2001 to December 31, 2009 for both cities. Based on the quasi-experimental technique, Difference-in-Difference (DID) analyses, I find that not only the Olympic Games had positive effects in air quality, but the air quality improvement also lasted even after the game, though in a smaller magnitude. On the other hand, the effects of Olympic Games on public health are limited.
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Food and Business Economics
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ix, 66 p. : ill.
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Chen Chen
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Olympic Games--(29th :--2008 :--Beijing, China)
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Air--Pollution--China--Beijing
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Sports facilities--China--Beijing--Health aspects
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD graduate
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Chen
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Chen
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2014-04-14 12:29:35
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2016-05-30
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 30th, 2016.
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