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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries

Broner, Fernando - 2012

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 regulation have a comparative advantage in polluting...

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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality : Evidence from the Nox Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

Deschenes, Olivier - 2014

Willingness to pay for air quality is a function of health and the costly defensive investments that contribute to health, but there is little research assessing the empirical importance of defensive investments. The setting for this paper is a large US emissions cap and trade market - the NOx...

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Bringing Satellite-Based Air Quality Estimates Down to Earth

Fowlie, Meredith; Rubin, Edward; Walker, Reed - 2021

We use state-of-the-art, satellite-based PM2.5 estimates to assess the extent to which the EPA's existing, monitor-based measurements over- or under-estimate true exposure to PM2.5 pollution. Treating satellite-based estimates as truth implies a substantial number of "policy...

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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural China

Leight, Jessica - 2016

Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of …

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Yi, Junjian - 2014

. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey …

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Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China

Bombardini, Matilde - 2016

Has the expansion in exports affected pollution and health outcomes across different prefectures in China in the two …

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Evaluating Economy-Wide Benefit Cost Analyses

Smith, V. Kerry - 2016

pollution as a non-separable element in the representative household's preferences. The paper makes three contributions to the …-separable, external influence on the household's non-market activities, affects the conventional explanation for the labor market …

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Inferring Carbon Abatement Costs in Electricity Markets : A Revealed Preference Approach Using the Shale Revolution

Cullen, Joseph - 2014

This paper examines how much carbon emissions from the electricity industry would decrease in response to a carbon price. We show how both carbon prices and cheap natural gas reduce, in a nearly identical manner, the historic cost advantage of coal-fired power plants. The shale revolution has...

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Transition to Clean Technology

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation—in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the potential transition to...

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School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

Das, Jishnu - 2011

households will respond to changes in school inputs. We present a dynamic household optimization model relating test scores to … school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …. We measure household spending changes and student test score gains in response to unanticipated as well as anticipated …

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