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Water Quality Violations and Avoidance Behavior : Evidence from Bottled Water Consumption

Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2011

In this paper, we examine the impact of poor water quality on avoidance behavior by estimating the change in bottled water purchases in response to drinking water violations. Using data from a national grocery chain matched with water quality violations, we find an increase in bottled water...

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Days of Haze : Environmental Information Disclosure and Intertemporal Avoidance Behavior

Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2008

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of informational regulatory approaches by analyzing the impact of smog alerts issued on consecutive days on discretionary outdoor activities in Southern California. Short-run adjustments to transitory risk entail costs that are likely to influence the...

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Risk Aversion, Liability Rules, and Safety

Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2003

This paper investigates the performance of liability rules in two-party stochastic externality problems where negotiations are feasible and side payments are based on the realized level of externalities. Results show that an increase in polluter liability does not necessarily increase safety or...

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The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity : Evidence from Call-Center Workers in China

Chang, Tom - 2016

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 …

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Gray Matters : Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation

Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2014

This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile. We rely …

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Environment, Health, and Human Capital

Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2013

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 …

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