Guojun He
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guojun He |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guojun |
| FAMILY NAME | He |
| SIGNATURE | HE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2391-9493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social elites as sentinels: Estimating national excess mortality of China’s sudden Covid-19 reopening
China’s sudden lifting of zero-COVID controls in December 2022 triggered a nationwide mortality surge. Using verifiable death records of social elites, such as academicians and key political figures, we estimate a conservative lower bound on excess mortality during the exit wave. We find that elite weekly mortality rates rose 5–10-fold in the weeks following the reopening, implying at least 1.44 million excess deaths nationally. Nevertheless, fur…
Short- and medium-term impacts of strict anti-contagion policies on non-Covid-19 mortality in China
The winter choke: Coal-Fired heating, air pollution, and mortality in China
Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China
This article estimates the effect of environmental regulation on firm productivity using a spatial regression discontinuity design implicit in China's water quality monitoring system. Because water quality readings are important for political evaluations and the monitoring stations only capture emissions from their upstream regions, local government officials are incentivized to enforce tighter environmental standards on firms immediately upstrea…
The short-term impacts of Covid-19 lockdown on urban air pollution in China
Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China
Straw burning, PM2.5, and death: Evidence from China
New evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy
Significance An estimated 4.5 billion people are currently exposed to particulate matter (PM) levels at least twice the concentration that the WHO considers safe. Existing evidence linking health to air pollution is largely based on populations exposed to only modest levels of PM and almost entirely composed of observational studies, which are likely to confound air pollution with other unobserved determinants of health. This study uses quasiexpe…
The effect of air pollution on mortality in China: Evidence from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
Surface Water Quality and Infant Mortality in China
Surface water pollution has a significant, nonmonotonic effect on the infant mortality rate in China. As surface water quality deteriorates, the infant mortality rate first increases and then decreases. Thus, moderate levels of pollutionin the absence of good information on water quality-are the most dangerous
Growth, Pollution, and Life Expectancy: China from 1991–2012
This paper examines the relationship between income, pollution, and mortality in China from 1991-2012. Using first-difference models, we document a robust positive association between city-level GDP and life expectancy. We also find a negative association between city-level particulate air pollution exposure and life expectancy that is driven by elevated cardiorespiratory mortality rates. The results suggest that while China's unprecedented econo…
Does Customer Auditing Help Chinese Workers
The authors find that auditing by downstream firms has limited effects on Chinese firms' adherence to labor standards and other measures of blue-collar workers' well-being. Auditing does not affect the supplier's blue-collar employees' wages, probability of belonging to a union, or likelihood of working overtime. Audited firms, however, are more likely to provide rural migrant workers (who usually face discrimination) with government-sponsored me…
The short-term impacts of Covid-19 lockdown on urban air pollution in China
Straw burning, PM2.5, and death: Evidence from China
Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China
Short- and medium-term impacts of strict anti-contagion policies on non-Covid-19 mortality in China
Surface Water Quality and Infant Mortality in China
Surface water pollution has a significant, nonmonotonic effect on the infant mortality rate in China. As surface water quality deteriorates, the infant mortality rate first increases and then decreases. Thus, moderate levels of pollutionin the absence of good information on water quality-are the most dangerous
Does Customer Auditing Help Chinese Workers
The authors find that auditing by downstream firms has limited effects on Chinese firms' adherence to labor standards and other measures of blue-collar workers' well-being. Auditing does not affect the supplier's blue-collar employees' wages, probability of belonging to a union, or likelihood of working overtime. Audited firms, however, are more likely to provide rural migrant workers (who usually face discrimination) with government-sponsored me…
Does Customer Auditing Help Chinese Workers
The authors find that auditing by downstream firms has limited effects on Chinese firms' adherence to labor standards and other measures of blue-collar workers' well-being. Auditing does not affect the supplier's blue-collar employees' wages, probability of belonging to a union, or likelihood of working overtime. Audited firms, however, are more likely to provide rural migrant workers (who usually face discrimination) with government-sponsored me…
Growth, Pollution, and Life Expectancy: China from 1991–2012
This paper examines the relationship between income, pollution, and mortality in China from 1991-2012. Using first-difference models, we document a robust positive association between city-level GDP and life expectancy. We also find a negative association between city-level particulate air pollution exposure and life expectancy that is driven by elevated cardiorespiratory mortality rates. The results suggest that while China's unprecedented econo…
The effect of air pollution on mortality in China: Evidence from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
Surface Water Quality and Infant Mortality in China
Surface water pollution has a significant, nonmonotonic effect on the infant mortality rate in China. As surface water quality deteriorates, the infant mortality rate first increases and then decreases. Thus, moderate levels of pollutionin the absence of good information on water quality-are the most dangerous
New evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy
Significance An estimated 4.5 billion people are currently exposed to particulate matter (PM) levels at least twice the concentration that the WHO considers safe. Existing evidence linking health to air pollution is largely based on populations exposed to only modest levels of PM and almost entirely composed of observational studies, which are likely to confound air pollution with other unobserved determinants of health. This study uses quasiexpe…
The winter choke: Coal-Fired heating, air pollution, and mortality in China
Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China
This article estimates the effect of environmental regulation on firm productivity using a spatial regression discontinuity design implicit in China's water quality monitoring system. Because water quality readings are important for political evaluations and the monitoring stations only capture emissions from their upstream regions, local government officials are incentivized to enforce tighter environmental standards on firms immediately upstrea…
The short-term impacts of Covid-19 lockdown on urban air pollution in China
Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China
Straw burning, PM2.5, and death: Evidence from China
Short- and medium-term impacts of strict anti-contagion policies on non-Covid-19 mortality in China
Social elites as sentinels: Estimating national excess mortality of China’s sudden Covid-19 reopening
China’s sudden lifting of zero-COVID controls in December 2022 triggered a nationwide mortality surge. Using verifiable death records of social elites, such as academicians and key political figures, we estimate a conservative lower bound on excess mortality during the exit wave. We find that elite weekly mortality rates rose 5–10-fold in the weeks following the reopening, implying at least 1.44 million excess deaths nationally. Nevertheless, fur…
China (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Air pollution (5 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Pollution (5 works)