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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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Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...

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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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Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program

Greenstone, Michael; Gallagher, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Approximately $30 billion (2000$) has been spent on Superfund clean-ups of hazardous waste sites, and remediation … efforts are incomplete at roughly half of the 1,500 Superfund sites. This study estimates the effect of Superfund clean-ups on … for these clean-ups. We cannot reject that the clean-ups had no effect on local housing price growth, nearly two decades …

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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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Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

Deschenes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper produces the first large-scale estimates of the US health related welfare costs due to climate change. Using the presumably random year-to-year variation in temperature and two state of the art climate models, the analysis suggests that under a "business as usual" scenario climate...

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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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Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings

Currie, Janet; Greenstone, Michael; Davis, Lucas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

A ubiquitous and largely unquestioned assumption in studies of housing markets is that there is perfect information about local amenities. This paper measures the housing market and health impacts of 1,600 openings and closings of industrial plants that emit toxic pollutants. We find that...

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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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