Xian-Zhu Nie

Can smart city construction enhance urban disaster resilience? A staggered difference-in-differences test based on China's national smart city pilots

Whether digital governance can be converted into measurable disaster-mitigation performance is an important criterion for evaluating smart-city development. Taking China's national smart-city pilot program as a quasi-natural experiment, this study uses a balanced panel of 300 prefecture-level cities from 2009 to 2023 a...