the form of residential sorting, can lead to non-random assignment of pollution, economists have employed a wide range of … quasi-experimental techniques to develop causal estimates of the effect of pollution. Second, economic research has placed a … biological and behavioral effects of pollution and for proper welfare calculations. Lastly, economic research has expanded the …

of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce … pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth. While a … handful of studies have documented the impacts of pollution on labor supply, this paper is the first to rigorously assess the …

small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air … relation to the environment, because services in general contribute relatively little to overall pollution, and those …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …

a substantial reduction in U.S. pollution from 1978-94 due entirely to a shift in the composition of U.S. manufacturing ….S. manufacturing, has also occurred among U.S. imports. Second, we find no evidence that pollution-intensive industries have been …

relationship has been called the out a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of the pollution …

Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real …, which itself may result from increased net imports of pollution-intensive goods (quot;international tradequot;). I first … show that most of the decline in pollution from U.S. manufacturing has been the result of changing technology, rather than …

A pervasive problem in the literature on the health costs of pollution is that optimizing individuals may compensate … for increases in pollution by reducing their exposure to protect their health. This implies that estimates of the health … effects of pollution may vastly understate the full welfare effects of pollution, particularly for individuals most at risk …

Environmental Engel curves (EECs) plot the relationship between households' incomes and the pollution embodied in the … are indirectly responsible for more pollution. Second, EECs are convex, with income elasticities of less than one. Third … pollution. We show that even without changes to production techniques, the pollution necessary to produce the goods and services …