Chinese Inter-Provincial Border City Air Quality and Digital Economy Panel Data, 2014-2023

Panel data from Chinese inter-provincial border cities from 2014 to 2023 analyzes the impact of digital-economy development on air quality. The dataset, created by Huifu Li and last updated in May 2026, is a 2.4 MB XLSX file available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It supports a study finding that the digital economy improves air quality, especially in non-contiguous, poverty-stricken areas and regions with lower coordinated development.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of digital economy development on air quality based on panel data from border cities.
• Analyzing spatial-spillover effects of economic policies on atmospheric pollution in adjacent regions.
• Investigating the role of regional market segmentation and environmental regulation capacity in air-quality improvement.
• Assessing the 'pollution haven' hypothesis during industrial transformation in developing countries.

Strengths

• Provides a 10-year panel data series from 2014 to 2023.
• Focuses on a specific geographic context: Chinese inter-provincial border cities.
• Explicitly examines mechanisms like market segmentation and regulatory capacity.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to its specific focus on Chinese border cities.

Provenance

Source

Huifu Li via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official Chinese statistical and environmental monitoring sources.

Time Range

2014 to 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 17:43:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Chinese inter-provincial border cities.