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The Impact of Local Residential Land Use Restrictions on Land Values Across and Within Single Family Housing Markets

Gyourko, Joseph E.; Krimmel, Jacob - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We provide estimates of the impact of restrictive residential land use environments on the price of land across major American housing markets. Using micro data on vacant land purchased to develop single family housing, we implement a new empirical strategy for estimating so-called 'zoning...

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Externalities in the Wildland - Urban Interface : Private Decisions, Collective Action, and Results from Wildfire Simulation Models for California

Kunreuther, Howard; Demidov, Artem; Pauly, Mark V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Much of the property damage from wildfires occurs when fires spread into built up areas, the wildland urban interface. Fire spread within such areas occurs from house to house, as embers from one burning structure ignite neighboring ones. Actions can be taken to mitigate the chances that a given...

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Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning

Shertzer, Allison - 2014

Zoning has been cited as a discriminatory policy tool by critics, who argue that ordinances are used to deter the entry of minority residents into majority neighborhoods through density restrictions (exclusionary zoning) and locate manufacturing activity in minority neighborhoods (environmental...

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Determinants of Business Cycle Comovement : A Robust Analysis

Baxter, Marianne - 2004

This paper investigates the determinants of business cycle comovement between countries. Our dataset includes over 100 countries, both developed and developing. We search for variables that are robust' in explaining comovement, using the approach of Leamer (1983). Variables considered are (i)...

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Why Does Working from Home Vary Across Countries and People?

Zarate, Pablo; Dolls, Mathias; Davis, Steven J.; Bloom, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use two surveys to assess why work from home (WFH) varies so much across countries and people. A measure of cultural individualism accounts for about one-third of the cross-country variation in WFH rates. Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US score highly on individualism and WFH rates,...

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International Trade and the Environment : Three Remaining Empirical Challenges

Cherniwchan, Jevan M.; Taylor, Michael Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the relationship between international trade and the environment since Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger published their now seminal working paper examining the potential environmental effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement in...

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Pollution Trends and US Environmental Policy : Lessons from the Last Half Century

Shapiro, Joseph S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …

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The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance

Hahn, Robert W. - 2010

can establish the overall pollution-reduction goal for a cap-and-trade system by setting the cap, and leave it up to the …

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Explaining the Price of Voluntary Carbon Offsets

Conte, Marc N. - 2009

This paper investigates factors that explain the large variability in the price of voluntary carbon offsets. We estimate hedonic price functions using a variety of provider- and project-level characteristics as explanatory variables. We find that providers located in Europe sell offsets at...

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Pollution and International Trade in Services

Levinson, Arik - 2009

small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air … relation to the environment, because services in general contribute relatively little to overall pollution, and those …

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