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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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Africa and Asia. In this paper, we focus on the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey and show that the quality of local …
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Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from …
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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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. Forecast receipt increased demand for protective masks and increased the responsiveness of outdoor time to pollution. Forecast … forecasts, limiting responses to uncertain future events like air pollution. We study two randomized interventions in Lahore …, Pakistan: 1) provision of air pollution forecasts; 2) general training in forecasting. Both reduced subjects' own air pollution …
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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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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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on establishment-level pollution emissions and business characteristics - including trade activities and global … trade policy uncertainty. Emission abatement is mainly driven by a decline in pollution emission intensity, and not by … pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …
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how lead-exposed children affect the learning environment of their classroom peers. We estimate these spillover effects …
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