Eco-efficiency as a Catalyst for Citizen Co-production: Evidence from Chinese Cities
General Economics
2025-04-21 v1 Economics
Abstract
We examine whether higher eco-efficiency encourages local governments to co-produce environmental solutions with citizens. Using Chinese provincial data and advanced textual analysis, we find that high eco-efficiency strongly predicts more collaborative responses to environmental complaints. Causal inference suggests that crossing a threshold of eco-efficiency increases co-production probabilities by about 24 percentage points, indicating eco-efficiency's potential as a catalyst for participatory environmental governance.
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@article{arxiv.2504.13290,
title = {Eco-efficiency as a Catalyst for Citizen Co-production: Evidence from Chinese Cities},
author = {Ruiyu Zhang and Lin Nie and Ce Zhao and Xin Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.13290},
year = {2025}
}