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-market valuation ; cost-benefit analysis ; air pollution …
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governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …
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In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …
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This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … expansion of population boosts total pollution, aggravating mortality. …
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air pollution, drinking water pollution, and extreme temperatures - and the response to those exposures differ across … pollution, leveraging recent advances in remote sensing measurement and machine learning. We find that the urban-rural gap in …
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This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five-Year Plan on internal movements of high-skilled labour across Chinese prefecture cities. Using data on migration flows calculated through changes in Hukou status, this study suggests...
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Why do damages from changes in environmental quality differ across and within countries? Causal investigation of this question has been challenging because differences may stem from heterogeneity in cumulative exposure or differences in socioeconomic factors such as income. We revisit the...
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China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution. We use high-frequency and high spatial resolution data to track … pollution along major highways linking the two cities. Our approach involves the use of an augmented regression discontinuity in … estimates show that air pollution is reduced by 7.6% along the main affected highway. We simultaneously find increased levels of …
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Can high-quality local governance alleviate the environmental impact of large-scale refugee migration? The recent surge in refugee flows has brought additional challenges to local governments in Europe, the Middle East and certain regions of Africa and Asia. In this paper, we focus on the case...
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those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …
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