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Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real … may result from increased net imports of pollution-intensive goods ("international trade"). I first show that most of the … decline in pollution from U.S. manufacturing has been the result of changing technology, rather than changes in the mix of …
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builds a framework to detect whether local governments skip air pollution monitoring when they expect air quality to … deteriorate. We infer this expectation from air quality alerts - public advisories based on local governments' own pollution … individual pollution monitor in Jersey City, NJ, suspected of a deliberate shutdown during the 2013 "Bridgegate" traffic jam …
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pollution are low. In this case RJVs fully share information and internalize the associated externality. However when the level …
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pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the five years since China … declared a "war on pollution" in 2014. It summarizes the emerging literature that has taken advantage of accompanying … pollution, and understand their social, economic, and health consequences …
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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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depletion? How does globalization affect air and water pollution? Do trade and investment create a race to the bottom in …
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We study how environmentally-inclined politicians (EIPs), i.e., politicians with prior environment-related working experience, affect local environmental performance in China. Firms located in cities with EIPs have lower levels of sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions. The effect is attenuated when the...
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Millions of tons of hazardous wastes have been produced in the United States in the last 60 years which have been dispersed into the air, into water, and on and under the ground. Using new population-level data that follows cohorts of children born in the state of Florida between 1994 and 2002,...
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The economic effects of climate change vary across both time and space. To study these effects, this paper builds a global economy-climate model featuring a high degree of geographic resolution. Carbon emissions from the use of energy in production increase the Earth's (average) temperature and...
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's perspective, even if the cost of preventing pollution was lower than the cost of the health damages produced. We then examine why …
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