Many of the world's environmental problems cross international borders, and to address those problems approximately 1 …,000 different International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) are in operation today. Most evidence, however suggests that those IEAs …

In generating fast economic growth, China is also generating growing concern about its environmental record. Using 2000 …-2009 data, we find that, while spending on environmental infrastructure has visible positive environmental impact, city spending … governments' spending on environmental improvements is at best uncorrelated with cadres' promotion odds, and is uncorrelated with …

Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs …. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected … households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox is the central puzzle at the intersection of environmental and …

specific context is an international environmental externality such as carbon emissions, and I assume a high income elasticity … of demand for environmental quality. I analyze how per-capita income differences between two countries affect their …

In collaboration with a state environmental regulator in India, we conducted a field experiment to raise the frequency … of environmental inspections to the prescribed minimum for a random set of industrial plants. The treatment was … these results and recover the full costs of environmental regulation, we model the regulatory process as a dynamic discrete …

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 …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …

, and usage rates ultimately declined further over time. More broadly, this study underscores the need to test environmental …