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We study a growth model with an environmental asset which is a source of utility and an input to consumption and production. The stock of this asset follows its own ecological dynamics, which are affected by economic activity. We study the implications of an approach to ranking sequences of...
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A decline in the net entry rate of employer firms in the United States in the last decades, a decline in business dynamism, may explain the observed productivity slowdown. We consider the role of nonemployers, businesses without paid employees, in business dynamism and aggregate productivity....
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builds a framework to detect whether local governments skip air pollution monitoring when they expect air quality to … deteriorate. We infer this expectation from air quality alerts - public advisories based on local governments' own pollution … individual pollution monitor in Jersey City, NJ, suspected of a deliberate shutdown during the 2013 "Bridgegate" traffic jam …
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Reducing global poverty and addressing climate change and other environmental crises are among the most important challenges facing humanity today. This review article discusses one way in which these problems are intertwined: economic development affects the environment. I synthesize recent...
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A robust body of evidence shows that air pollution exposure is detrimental to health outcomes, often measured as deaths …, performance, and skills. This article reviews the economic research investigating the causal effects of pollution on "non … pollution can be more challenging to observe than formal health care encounters but may be more pervasive if they affect …
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This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …
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We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a …
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Efficient responses to climate change require accurate estimates of both aggregate damages and where and to whom they occur. While specific case studies and simulations have suggested that climate change disproportionately affects the poor, large-scale direct evidence of the magnitude and...
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protection, substantially expanded public access to pollution information, and dramatically increased households' awareness about … pollution issues. These transformations, in turn, triggered a cascade of household behavioral changes, including increases in … online searches for pollution-related topics, adjustments in day-to-day consumption patterns to avoid pollution exposure, and …
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