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Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions: Progress and Challenges
Hammitt, James K.; Cropper, Maureen L.; Robinson, Lisa A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The value of mortality risk reduction is an important component of the benefits of environmental policies. In recent years, the number, scope, and quality of valuation studies have increased dramatically. Revealed-preference studies of wage compensation for occupational risks, on which analysts...
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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 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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The Housing Market Impacts of Shale Gas Development
Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Spiller, Elisheba; Timmins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
, well productivity, and visibility. Results indicate large negative impacts on nearby groundwater-dependent homes, while …
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Has Surface Water Quality Improved Since the Clean Water Act?
Smith, V. Kerry; Wolloh, Carlos Valcarcel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
On the fortieth anniversary of the Clean Water Act this paper reports the first quantitative assessment of the aggregate trends in water quality in the U.S. using a single standard over the years 1975 to 2011. The analysis suggests that fresh water lakes for the nation as a whole are about at...
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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
This paper estimates the effect of early lead exposure on academic achievement and adult earnings. We analyze longitudinal information from individuals attending primary and secondary schools in the city of Arica (in northern Chile). Between 1984 and 1989, Arica received more than 20,000 tons of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969226
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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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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 … use the sharp changes in ambient air pollution concentrations driven by the implementation of the 1970 Clean Air Act …
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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 … provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …), on the benefits of a commonly used improved stove that laboratory tests showed to reduce indoor air pollution and require …
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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 local housing price appreciation. We compare housing...
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Caution, Drivers! Children Present: Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health
Knittel, Christopher R.; Miller, Douglas Lee; Sanders, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
air pollution levels, and (2) what is the impact of modern air pollution levels on infant health? Our setting is … suggest that ambient pollution levels, specifically particulate matter, still have large impacts on weekly infant mortality … rates. Our results also illustrate the importance of weather controls in measuring pollution's impact on infant mortality. …
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