Can low-carbon pilot policies improve the efficiency of urban carbon emissions?——A quasi-natural experiment based on 282 prefecture-level cities across China

• Jian Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

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• Zhihui Song,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

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• Yuzhen Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

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• Rana Yassir Hussain

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  * E-mail: yassir.hussain@ue.edu.pk

  Affiliation Division of Management and Administrative Sciences, UE Business School, University of Education Lahore, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6951-1322

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