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 …

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 …

potentially refutable predictions on abatement costs, pollution levels, or emission intensities …

, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …

This paper sets out a general equilibrium pollution and trade model to provide a framework for examination of the trade … and environment debate. The model contains as special cases a canonical pollution haven model as well as the standard … Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson factor endowments model. We draw quite heavily from trade theory, but develop a simple pollution …

This paper sets out a theory of how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We … develop a theoretical model to divide trade's impact on pollution into scale, technique, and composition effects and then … examine this theory using data on sulfur dioxide concentrations when it alters the composition, and hence the pollution …

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 …