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The Long-term Effects of Early Lead Exposure: Evidence from a case of Environmental Negligence

Rau, Tomás; Reyes, Loreto; Urzúa, Sergio S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

, the chemical waste was located several kilometers from the city. However, Arica's rapid expansion, which included the … construction of housing projects just meters away from the waste deposit, put a large number of families at risk. Our data include …

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Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City

Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Hanna, Rema; Oliva, Paulina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from developed country data. However, given the lower levels of air pollution in developed countries, these estimates may not be externally valid to the developing country context if there is a nonlinear...

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Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Antisocial and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents

Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

It is well known that exposure to lead has numerous adverse effects on behavior and development. Using data on two cohorts of children from the NLSY, this paper investigates the effect of early childhood lead exposure on behavior problems from childhood through early adulthood. I find large...

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Incentivizing China's Urban Mayors to Mitigate Pollution Externalities: The Role of the Central Government and Public Environmentalism

Kahn, Matthew E.; Zheng, Siqi; Sun, Weizeng; Luo, Danglun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

China's extremely high levels of urban air, water and greenhouse gas emissions levels pose local and global environmental challenges. China's urban leaders have substantial influence and discretion over the evolution of economic activity that generates such externalities. This paper examines the...

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Waste of Effort? International Environmental Agreements

Levinson, Arik; Kellenberg, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. In this special case we have data on international waste shipments from both before and … waste shipments among countries before and after one of the trading partners signs the agreement. Despite the strengths of … this approach, we find almost no evidence that the Convention has resulted in less waste being shipped among countries. …

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The Welfare Impact of Indirect Pigouvian Taxation: Evidence from Transportation

Knittel, Christopher R.; Sandler, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

A basic tenet of economics posits that when consumers or firms don't face the true social cost of their actions, market outcomes are inefficient. In the case of negative externalities, Pigouvian taxes are one way to correct this market failure, where the optimal tax leads agents to internalize...

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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries

Broner, Fernando; Bustos, Paula; Carvalho, Vasco M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We study the determinants of comparative advantage in polluting industries. We combine data on environmental policy at the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental regulation have a comparative advantage in polluting...

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Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You'll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970

Isen, Adam; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Walker, W. Reed - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines the long-term impacts of in-utero and early childhood exposure to ambient air pollution on adult labor market outcomes. We take advantage of a new administrative data set that is uniquely suited for addressing this question because it combines information on individuals'...

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What Do We Know About Short and Long Term Effects of Early Life Exposure to Pollution?

Currie, Janet; Graff Zivin, Joshua; Mullins, Jamie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Pollution exposure early in life is detrimental to near-term health and an increasing body of evidence suggests that early childhood health influences health and human capital outcomes later in life. This paper reviews the economic research that brings these two literatures together. We begin...

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Gray Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation

Graff Zivin, Joshua; Bharadwaj, Prashant; Gibson, Matthew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile. We rely on comparisons across siblings which address concerns about locational sorting and all other time-invariant family characteristics that can lead to endogenous exposure to poor...

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