We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there are arguably no significant competitiveness effects on firms, at least … costs indicated by their average share in the budgets of most manufacturing industries may limit the impact of the EU ETS …

later school performance. We also consider different childcare characteristics such as duration and quality, which appear to … quality issues. …

districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores … for identifying parental evaluations of measured school quality in the presence of strong neighborhood sorting. There is … into neighborhoods only slightly reduces our estimates. Given that school quality, as measured by monetary resources, is …

the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …

, this net outmigration trend fades in the long term due to stabilisation in air quality. Our findings help contribute to a …