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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
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City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2020
This paper develops a model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when key activities in the city are associated with emissions that harm consumers. In contrast to extant research, our model is fully micro-founded with respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827112
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Population Density and Urban Air Quality
Borck, Rainald - 2019
We use panel data from Germany to analyze the effect of population density on urban air pollution (nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and ozone). To address unobserved heterogeneity and omitted variables, we present long difference/fixed effects estimates and instrumental variables estimates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870644
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Social Position and Fairness Views
Hvidberg, Kristoffer Balle; Kreiner, Claus; Stantcheva, … - 2021
We link survey data containing Danish people’s perceptions of where they rank in various reference groups and fairness views with administrative records on their income history, life events, and reference groups. People know their income positions well, but believe others are closer to...
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Air Pollution and Internal Migration : Evidence from Iranian Household Survey
Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of air pollution (measured by satellite data of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)) on net outmigration. Using data from the 2011 and 2016 National Population and Housing Censuses for 31 provinces of Iran and applying a panel fixed effects estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841139
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Group-Specific Redistribution, Inequality, and Subjective Well-Being in China
Deng, Peihua; Schöb, Ronnie - 2022
Using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship … between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China’s urban, rural, and …
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Co2 Emissions and GDP : Evidence from China
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019
This paper examines the relationship between the logarithms of CO2 emissions and real GDP in China by applying …
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Atmospheric Pollution in Chinese Cities : Trends and Persistence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Carmona-González, Nieves; … - 2022
This paper applies fractional integration methods to investigate the behaviour of various pollutants (PM10, PM25, SO2 and NO2) in seven Chinese cities (Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Nanjing and Xian) using daily data over the period January 1, 2014 – November 18, 2022. The...
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Does Public Employment Affect Household Saving Rates? Evidence from Chinese Household Data
Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289689
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On the Effects of Linking Voluntary Cap-and-Trade Systems for CO2 Emissions
Weitzman, Martin - 2018
Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...
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