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Meeting Urban Housing Needs: Do People Really Come to the Nuisance?

Depro, Brooks M.; Timmins, Christopher; O'Neil, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Understanding the forces that lead to correlations between pollution exposure, poverty, and race is crucial to the formation of sound environmental justice (EJ) policy. In particular, what are the roles of disproportionate siting of pollution sources versus post-siting housing market dynamics...

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The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach

Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Khan, Shakeeb; Timmins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water in Brazil is highly correlated with other observable and unobservable...

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Getting Cars Off the Road: The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program

Cropper, Maureen L.; Jiang, Yi; Alberini, Anna; Baur, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Ground-level ozone remains a serious problem in the United States. Because ozone non-attainment is a summer problem, episodic rather than continuous controls of ozone precursors are possible. We evaluate the costs and effectiveness of an episodic scheme that requires people to buy permits to...

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

Bae, Hyunhoe; Wilcoxen, Peter; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) was expected to reduce health risks stemming from emissions of hazardous chemicals … little effect on health risks. State-level data processing efforts, in contrast, did lead to significant reductions in health … risks. We conclude that simple dissemination of the data was ineffective (and even counterproductive in some instances), and …

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The Housing Market Impacts of Shale Gas Development

Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Spiller, Elisheba; Timmins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Using data from Pennsylvania and New York and an array of empirical techniques to control for confounding factors, we recover hedonic estimates of property value impacts from shale gas development that vary with geographic scale, water source, well productivity, and visibility. Results indicate...

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Shale Gas Development and Property Values: Differences across Drinking Water Sources

Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Spiller, Elisheba; Timmins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

wells increases housing values, though risks to groundwater fully offset those gains. By itself, groundwater risk reduces …

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Valuing the Benefits of Superfund Site Remediation: Three Approaches to Measuring Localized Externalities

Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Mastromonaco, Ralph; Timmins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We apply three complementary approaches designed to identify the localized effects of Superfund site remediation under the CERCLA, examining data at the level of (i) the census tract (paying attention to within tract heterogeneity), (ii) the census block, and (iii) individual house transaction....

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