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This paper describes and implements a method for estimating the average marginal value of a time-varying local public good: air quality. It uses the General Social Survey (GSS), which asks thousands of people in various U.S. locations how happy they are, along with other demographic and attitude...
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The events of 9/11 released a million tons of toxic dust into lower Manhattan, an unparalleled environmental disaster. It is puzzling then that the literature has shown little effect of fetal exposure to the dust. However, inference is complicated by pre-existing differences between the affected...
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clubs are more lethal and choose suicide terrorism more often, when they provide benign local public goods. Our results … suggest benign tactics to counter terrorism by religious radicals …
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We study the private adoption and diffusion of a technology that provides a local public good - PurpleAir (PA) pollution monitors. From a purely informational perspective, the ideal spacing of these monitors should reflect the degree of spatial correlation in pollution. In stark contrast, we...
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This paper argues that measures of life satisfaction, now being collected annually by the Gallup World Poll in more …
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We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment …
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This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast … with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of … terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational terrorism. In line with the results of some recent studies, this …
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This paper uses an updated and revised panel data set on ambient air pollution in cities world-wide to examine the robustness of the evidence for the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between national income and pollution. We test the sensitivity of the pollution-income relationship...
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We use state-of-the-art, satellite-based PM2.5 estimates to assess the extent to which the EPA's existing, monitor-based measurements over- or under-estimate true exposure to PM2.5 pollution. Treating satellite-based estimates as truth implies a substantial number of "policy...
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Accurate estimation of air quality impacts on health outcomes is critical for guiding policy choices to mitigate such … damages. Estimation poses an empirical challenge, however, because local economic activity can simultaneously generate changes …
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