Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution …,600 missing children in Indonesia (1.2% of the affected birth cohorts). Prenatal exposure to pollution largely drives the result … (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution …

and Germany, and thereby assess the impact of increased pollution abatement capital regulation on productivity growth. Our … expenses incurred to satisfy these regulations, such as investment in pollution abatement capital, is unproductive in terms of … paper we construct a model which explicitly recognizes the difference between pollution abatement capital and "productive …

pollution, drinking water pollution, and extreme temperatures--and the response to those exposures differ across urban and rural …, we present new evidence on urban-rural differences in air quality and population sensitivity to air pollution, leveraging …

cognition for respondents in two developing countries: China and Indonesia, both with very low educated elderly populations … by the rural-urban gradient. China has a stronger rural-urban gradient than Indonesia, which is associated with the hukou … Indonesia. The gender differential in both countries is smaller for the mid-aged, 45-59, for whom the gender schooling …

, Indonesia, are contrasted with the United States. We focus on rigorously-validated measures of HDL and non-HDL cholesterol among …

those who lose by a very small margin in the sample of procurement auctions from Indonesia, suggesting that bidders collude …-procurement auctions and about 3% for all auctions in Indonesia. We cannot reject the null of competition in other countries …

For political, jurisdictional and technical reasons, environmental regulation of industrial pollution is often … incomplete: regulations apply to only a subset of facilities contributing to a pollution problem. Policymakers are increasingly … regulated producers are less polluting than their unregulated ounterparts, emissions under incomplete regulation can exceed the …

regulation. Guided by restrictive legislative mandates, regulatory policies often strike a quite different balance with an … policy efforts. Inadequate regulatory enforcement and behavioral responses to regulation may limit their effectiveness, while …