From Employer Responsibility to Environmental Irresponsibility: Unintended Impacts of Social Insurance Law on Pollution Emissions

Yanan Li
Yanan Li
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Business School, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Yu Qin
Yu Qin
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Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Wenjun Wang
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Wenjun Wang
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Carbon Neutrality and Climate Change Thrust, Society Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511453, China
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Yanan Li

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8856-6580

Business School, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

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Yu Qin

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9993-8522

Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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Corresponding Author

Wenjun Wang

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Carbon Neutrality and Climate Change Thrust, Society Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511453, China

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Published Online:28 Oct 2026https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2025.00714

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Received:February 21, 2025
Accepted:July 05, 2026
Published Online:October 28, 2026

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Yanan Li, Yu Qin, Wenjun Wang (2026) From Employer Responsibility to Environmental Irresponsibility: Unintended Impacts of Social Insurance Law on Pollution Emissions. Management Science 0(0).

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The authors thank the associate editor, three anonymous reviewers, Pan Liu, and Yun Qiu for their helpful discussions and comments. They also thank participants at the workshop at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), the Health & Labor Workshop at Peking University, and the 2025 Asian Economic Development Conference, including Kejun Jiang, Xiongfei Li, Yuhang Pan, Ju Shi and Minbo Xu, for their valuable feedback.