A robust body of evidence shows that air pollution exposure is detrimental to health outcomes, often measured as deaths …, performance, and skills. This article reviews the economic research investigating the causal effects of pollution on "non … pollution can be more challenging to observe than formal health care encounters but may be more pervasive if they affect …

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

Reductions in ambient pollution have been taken as an indisputable "silver lining" to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Indeed …, including to China's notoriously-poor air quality. We analyze China's official pollution monitor data and account for the large … are found for the six provinces neighboring Hubei. We conclude that COVID-19 had ambiguous impacts on China's pollution …

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 …