New Energy Demonstration Cities and Urban Ecological Outcomes in China, 2000-2023

An unbalanced panel dataset of 298 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2000 to 2023, created by Fanke Sheng. It measures urban ecological resilience using an entropy-weighted composite index of 14 environmental indicators to evaluate the impact of China's 2014 National New Energy Demonstration City pilot policy.

Use Cases

• Evaluating the effect of energy policy on urban greening based on park green area and green coverage indicators.
• Assessing the differential impact of policy on pollution control, emissions, and resource efficiency sub-dimensions.
• Conducting heterogeneity analysis of policy effects based on city size and fiscal constraints.
• Validating difference-in-differences methodologies using event study analysis and robustness checks like PSM-DID.

Strengths

• Covers 298 Chinese prefecture-level cities over a 23-year period (2000-2023).
• Employs a composite index built from 14 distinct environmental indicators.
• Includes results from 10 robustness checks, including PSM-DID and permutation tests.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 83.5 KB file size suggests a very limited scope, likely containing summary statistics rather than raw city-level panel data.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Likely compiled from official Chinese statistical yearbooks and environmental reports for a difference-in-differences analysis.

Time Range

2000-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 05:42:51; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (298 prefecture-level cities)