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

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 …

poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …

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 …

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 …