either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public … ordinary citizens. The recognition that the health consequences of pollution can be dealt with privately at a cost adds an … private mitigation is feasible, inequality of incomes leads to an unequal distribution of the health burden of pollution (in …

its intensity (i.e., the tax rate or the quota level) to price pollution. When countries price pollution non …

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

modelling of pollution and pollution abatement. We derive two key insights. First, if the national government implements a … permit system (equivalently, pollution taxes) that allow for emissions as in the first-best, cities chosen by local …-best emission policy and extensions to city asymmetries, a fiscal externality, local pollution, generalized commuting costs and …

Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less … birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate matter exposure in high-pollution yet high-income Hong Kong. The … our stark mortality results in a comparative analysis of pollution-mortality relationships across studies. We provide …

This note contributes to the literature on the air pollution consequences determined by hosting mega-events. An … econometric analysis is provided to document the increase in air pollution observed in Naples (Italy) during the G20 Ministerial …