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Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the power sector from 1938-1994: anticipation and adaptation
Clay, Karen; Jha, Akshaya; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, … - 2021
provided the federal government with the authority to "control" air pollution, sending a strong signal to firms of impending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582425
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Energy price shocks and the demand for energy-efficient housing : evidence from Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Braakmann, Nils; Dursun, Bahadir; Pickard, Harry - 2023
How do private consumers adapt to changes to energy prices, in particular do they invest in energy-saving measures? We study this question in the context of the rapid rise in energy prices caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013547712
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Something from nothing : estimating consumption rates using propensity scores, with application to emissions reduction policies
Bardsley, Nicholas; Büchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2016
Consumption surveys often record zero purchases of a good because of a short observation window. Only mean consumption rates can then be inferred. We show that propensity scores can be used to estimate each unit's consumption rate, revealing the distribution. We demonstrate the method using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452103
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Time is of the essence: climate adaptation induced by existing institutions
Bento, Antonio; Miller, Noah; Mookerjee, Mehreen; … - 2021
In the absence of first-best climate policy, we demonstrate that existing government institutions and policy established for reasons unrelated to climate change may induce climate adaptation. We examine the impact of temperature on ambient ozone concentration in the United States from 1980-2013,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517871
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How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?
Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023
Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286491
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Pandemic meets pollution: poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242834
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Toxic truth : lead and fertility
Clay, Karen; Portnykh, Margarita; Severnini, Edson R. - 2018
Using U.S county level data on lead in air for 1978-1988 and lead in topsoil in the 2000s, this paper examines the impact of lead exposure on a critical human function with societal implications - fertility. To provide causal estimates of the effect of lead on fertility, we use two sets of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865468
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Impact of the Clean Air Act on air pollution and infant health : evidence from South Korea
Lee, Soohyung; Yoo, Heesun; Nam, Minhyuk - 2018
This paper examines the extent to which the 2005 Clean Air Act introduced in South Korea affected air pollution and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865473
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City size, pollution and emission policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803021
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Greener fleet, cleaner air : how Low Emission Zones reduce pollution
Aydin, Eren; Gehrsitz, Markus; Traxler, Christian - 2024
implementation of stage 1 and 2 LEZs, which banned the most pollution-intensive vehicles from city centers, significantly reduced PM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582278