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North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation : The Case of Battery Recycling

Tanaka, Shinsuke; Teshima, Kensuke; Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …

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Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's RECLAIM Program

Mansur, Erin T. - 2019

We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a …

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Output and Attribute-Based Carbon Regulation Under Uncertainty

Kellogg, Ryan - 2019

Output-based carbon regulations--such as fuel economy standards and the rate-based standards in the Clean Power Plan--create well-known incentives to inefficiently increase output. Similar distortions are created by attribute-based regulations. This paper demonstrates that, despite these...

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Do Environmental Markets Cause Environmental Injustice? Evidence from California’s Carbon Market

Hernandez-Cortes, Danae - 2020

growing distributional concern that market forces could increase the pollution exposure gap between disadvantaged and other … communities by spatially reallocating pollution. We estimate how this "environmental justice gap" changed following the 2013 … critiques. Embedding a pollution transport model within a program evaluation framework, we find that while the EJ gap was …

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Lead Exposure Reduces Academic Performance : Intensity, Duration, and Nutrition Matter

Hollingsworth, Alex - 2020

We leverage a natural experiment, where a large national automotive racing organization switched from leaded to unleaded fuel, to study how ambient lead exposure and nutrition impact learning in elementary school. The average race emitted more than 10 kilograms of lead -- a quantity similar to...

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GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages

Weitzman, Martin L. - 2010

A critical issue in climate-change economics is the specification of the so-called "damages function" and its interaction with the unknown uncertainty of catastrophic outcomes. This paper asks how much we might be misled by our economic assessment of climate change when we employ a conventional...

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Optimal Emission Pricing in the Presence of International Spillovers : Decomposing Leakage and Terms-of-Trade Motives

Böhringer, Christoph - 2010

Carbon control policies in OECD countries commonly differentiate emission prices in favor of energy-intensive industries. While leakage provides a efficiency argument for differential emission pricing, the latter may be a disguised beggar-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade. Using an...

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Explaining the Price of Voluntary Carbon Offsets

Conte, Marc N. - 2009

This paper investigates factors that explain the large variability in the price of voluntary carbon offsets. We estimate hedonic price functions using a variety of provider- and project-level characteristics as explanatory variables. We find that providers located in Europe sell offsets at...

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Toxic Exposure in America : Estimating Fetal and Infant Health Outcomes

Agarwal, Nikhil - 2009

outcomes varies across pollution media: air pollution has a larger impact on health outcomes than either water or land. And …, within air pollution, releases of carcinogens are particularly problematic for infant health outcomes. We do not, however …

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Fetal Exposure to Toxic Releases and Infant Health

Currie, Janet M. - 2008

Every year, millions of pounds of toxic chemicals thought to be linked to developmental problems in fetuses and young children are released into the air. In this paper we estimate the effect of these releases on the health of newborns. Using data from the Toxic Release Inventory Program and...

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