Randomized trial evaluates the impact of government environmental attention on green economy efficiency, suggesting significant benefits for urban development.
Key Points
This study aims to examine how government environmental attention influences urban green economy efficiency.
Constructed a 33-keyword dictionary for quantifying government environmental attention via text analysis of 248 city government reports.
Developed a three-stage network SBM model to measure green economic efficiency using panel data from 2010 to 2021.
Applied fixed-effects models to analyze the relationship between government environmental attention and green economic efficiency.
A 1-percentage-point increase in government environmental attention correlates with a 7.386-percentage-point increase in green economic efficiency.
The impact of government environmental attention is more pronounced in cities with lower green economic efficiency.
Stronger effects observed in secondary industry-dominant and low-urbanization cities.