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Record W4410194352 · doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145648

Firm productivity and SO2 emission intensity

2025· article· en· W4410194352 on OpenAlexaff
Yike Tang, J Bruneau

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Cleaner Production · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicEnergy, Environment, Economic Growth
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
FundersSocial Science Foundation of Jiangsu ProvinceJiangxi Provincial Association of Social Sciences
KeywordsProductivityIntensity (physics)Emission intensityEnvironmental scienceNatural resource economicsBusinessAgricultural economicsEconomicsEngineeringMacroeconomicsPhysics

Abstract

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This paper combines firm-level pollution data, production data, industry-level tariff data, and province-level environmental regulation data to examine sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions across high- and low-productivity manufacturing firms. We identify three types of emission intensity: embodied emission intensity (maximum potential emissions prior to abatement), removal emission intensity (emissions mitigated by abatement equipment), and net emission intensity (emissions released into the atmosphere). Using the Tobit model and the Heckman two-step sample selection method, our results show that high-productivity firms exhibit lower embodied emission intensity, rely less on abatement activities, yet achieve greater reductions in net emission intensity compared to low-productivity firms. Under trade protection, high-productivity firms may generate lower embodied and net emission intensities relative to their less productive counterparts, but this impact is not very strong. These findings suggest that high-productivity firms are more likely to improve production process and adopt cleaner technologies allowing them to rely less on tail-pipe technologies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.037

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.210
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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