Polluting industries are characterized by different levels of abatement expenditure. In countries such as the US with relatively strict environmental standards, theoretical models and intuition predict that industries that are forced to undertake greater abatement expenditure would have lower...

This paper examines racial disparity in wage income earnings in the USA across different quantiles, after accounting for the endogeneity of labor market engagement which is captured using the continuous variable: annual number of weeks worked. Controlling for this endogeneity is important...

Because conventional command-and-control environmental regulation often performs poorly in developing countries, policymakers are increasingly experimenting with alternatives, including voluntary regulatory programs. Research in industrialized countries suggests that such programs are sometimes...