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emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich quasi-experiment reveals that it decreased summertime ozone … conclude that ozone reductions are the primary channel for these effects, implying that ozone's costs are larger than …
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ozone concentration in the United States from 1980-2013, and the role of institution-induced adaptation. Ozone is formed …
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local. Second, if no emission scheme is implemented or if emission policies are too lax, then cities steered by local …
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We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For identification we exploit cross-sectional variation across districts in the number of cars eligible...
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In light of the low public awareness of ozone pollution and the potential health threats posed by long-term ozone … exposure, this study estimates the causal effect of long-term ozone exposure on respiratory mortality. By employing an … instrumental variable based on the long-distance transmission of ozone from upwind neighbor counties, we discover that an increase …
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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 …
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Ground-level ozone has been shown to have significant health consequences from short-term exposure, and as such has … been regulated in the U.S. since the 1970s by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Ozone is not emitted directly … ozone precursors and not when these emissions occur. Using hourly data on ambient ozone from 1980-2017 near the U.S. time …
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We develop a unifying approach to estimating climate impacts and adaptation, and apply it to study the impact of climate change on local air pollution. Economic agents are usually constrained when responding to daily weather shocks, but may adjust to long-run climatic changes. By exploiting...
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Concerns for environmental quality and its impact on people's welfare are fundamental arguments for the adoption of environmental legislation in most countries. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between air quality and subjective well-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges...
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One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...
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