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How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail : Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Goehring, Grant; Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Public health interventions often involve a trade-off between improving health and protecting individual rights. We study this trade-off in a high-stakes setting: prostitution regulations aimed at reducing the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Victorian Britain. These...

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North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation : The Case of Battery Recycling

Tanaka, Shinsuke; Teshima, Kensuke; Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …

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China's War on Pollution : Evidence from the First Five Years

Greenstone, Michael; He, Guojun; Li, Shanjun; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The decade from 2010 to 2019 marked a significant turning point in China's history of environmental regulation and … 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 …

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Toxic Exposure in America : Estimating Fetal and Infant Health Outcomes

Agarwal, Nikhil - 2009

outcomes varies across pollution media: air pollution has a larger impact on health outcomes than either water or land. And …, within air pollution, releases of carcinogens are particularly problematic for infant health outcomes. We do not, however …

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Information Disclosure Policy : Do States' Data Processing Efforts Help More than the Information Disclosure Itself?

Bae, Hyunhoe - 2008

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) was expected to reduce health risks stemming from emissions of hazardous chemicals by increasing public pressure on polluters. However, it is a massive and complex dataset, requiring significant expertise to interpret in its raw form. State governments have...

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Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks

Viscusi, W. Kip - 2006

This paper provides a systematic review of the economic analysis of health, safety, and environmental regulations. Although the market failures that give rise to a rationale for intervention are well known, not all market failures imply that market risk levels are too great. Hazard warnings...

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Charging NOx Emitters for Health Damages : An Exploratory Analysis

Mauzerall, Denise - 2004

We present a proof-of-concept analysis of the measurement of the health damage of ozone (O3) produced from nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO NO2) emitted by individual large point sources in the eastern United States. We use a regional atmospheric model of the eastern United States, the Comprehensive...

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The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution : How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom

Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Children exposed to pollutants like lead are more disruptive and have lower achievement. However, little is known about whether lead-exposed children affect the long-run outcomes of their peers. We estimate these spillover effects using new data on preschool blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to...

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Lead and Juvenile Delinquency : New Evidence from Linked Birth, School and Juvenile Detention Records

Aizer, Anna - 2017

Using a unique dataset linking preschool blood lead levels (BLLs), birth, school, and detention data for 120,000 children born 1990-2004 in Rhode Island, we estimate the impact of lead on behavior: school suspensions and juvenile detention. We develop two instrumental variables approaches to...

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Agricultural Fires and Infant Health

Rangel, Marcos A. - 2016

the importance of disentangling pollution from economic activities that drive it …

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