Research Article

China’s New Environmental Protection Law and Green Innovation: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Cities

Table 2

Summary statistics.

Panel A
VariableNMeanStdMinMedianMax

Ginnovation17980.02780.01830.00180.02400.1051
Treat17980.46670.00001.00001.00001.0000
AGDP179810.56830.56529.323810.529812.0075
FDI17980.01820.01610.00020.01350.0721
Struct179837.72148.967311.470036.775076.3500
Science179810.16921.17217.710210.035313.4326
Industry17986.66490.97824.35776.64258.8969
POP17985.9040.6164.3045.9457.063
PM2517983.50460.48181.96713.53274.3081

Panel B
GinnovationAGDPFDIStructScienceIndustryPOPPM2.5

Ginnovation1
AGDP0.1351
FDI0.0210.3221
Struct0.1840.3460.1811
Science0.0840.6420.3930.4311
Industry−0.0920.4310.3340.1950.7481
POP0.023−0.1800.0020.0740.3900.5981
PM25−0.0210.0320.260−0.0950.2650.5020.4251

, , and indicate statistical significance at the 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively. All variables are defined in Table 1.