Xiao-Kang Xin

Causal effects of the south-to-north water diversion project on groundwater restoration in Beijing

The South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP), China’s largest inter-basin water transfer scheme, has supplied Beijing with over 10 billion m3 since Central Route operations commenced in December 2014. This study exploits the 2014 commissioning as a policy discontinuity and applies a sharp Regression Discontinuity...