protection, substantially expanded public access to pollution information, and dramatically increased households' awareness about … pollution issues. These transformations, in turn, triggered a cascade of household behavioral changes, including increases in … online searches for pollution-related topics, adjustments in day-to-day consumption patterns to avoid pollution exposure, and …

Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and … infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India's environmental regulations. The … air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient concentrations of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and …

We study exposure to pollution information and investment portfolio allocations, exploiting the rollout of air quality … monitoring stations in India. Using a triple-differences framework, we show that retail investors' investments in "brown" stocks … are negatively related to local air pollution after a monitoring station appears nearby, with particularly pronounced …

. Because air pollution is likely to be correlated with unobservable local characteristics such as economic activity, we … instrument for air quality using the contribution of distant sources to local pollution -- excluding emissions from local sources … also confirm the importance of instrumenting for local air pollution …

coal-fired electricity generation and wind direction to address the endogeneity of local air pollution. Results suggest … costs and the discreteness of the choice set. Our sorting results indicate that the economic value of air quality …

estimates of WTP for clean air in developing countries. A spatial discontinuity in air pollution created by the Huai River … heating policy enables us to analyze household responses to long-run exposure to pollution. Our model allows heterogeneity in …