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 …

for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …

How has globalization affected the relative taxation of labor and capital, and why? To address this question we build …

(1) The U.S. share of the world's science and engineering graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian …

of both advanced and emerging countries during two periods of globalization -- the pre-World War I classical gold … the two eras of globalization reflects factors such as strong cross-country interdependence fostered through links to gold …

dramatic revisions to price levels and real incomes across the world. The paper tries to understand these changes. Domestic …

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …