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 …

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 …

Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent despite a substantial … suggest that the implicit pollution tax that manufacturers face doubled between 1990 and 2008. These changes in environmental …

Do US air pollution offset markets disproportionately relocate pollution to or from low-income or minority communities … plants. We find little association of offset prices or offset-induced movements in pollution with the share of a community …

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 …

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 …

depletion? How does globalization affect air and water pollution? Do trade and investment create a race to the bottom in …

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 …