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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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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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ozone concentration in the United States from 1980-2013, and the role of institution-induced adaptation. Ozone is formed …
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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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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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Every year between 2000 and 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica. (FAO, 2010). This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity, and the presence of vegetation key to maintaining...
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On normal days, the temperature decreases with altitude, allowing air pollutants to rise and disperse. During inversion episodes, a warmer air layer at higher altitude traps pollutants close to the ground. We show how readily available NASA satellite data on vertical temperature profiles can be...
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Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
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We explore the power of behavioral economic insights to influence the level of households' recycling and Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) by examining the effectiveness of a green nudge, the adoption of a Clear Bag Policy that was implemented in 2015 in a mid-size urban municipality in Canada. Using...
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