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Does access to health care mitigate environmental damages?
Mullins, Jamie T.; White, Corey D. - 2019
Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test this hypothesis by utilizing exogenous variation in both access to health care and environmental...
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Eco-innovation and employment: a task-based analysis
Elliott, Robert J. R.; Kuai, Wenjing; Maddison, David; … - 2021
This paper provides some of the first evidence of the relationship between eco-innovation and employment. Adopting a O …*NET based task approach, in a study of the Dutch firms, we show that eco-innovation has no impact on overall employment. However …
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The impact of regulation on innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …
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Determinants of pollution abatement and control expenditure : evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The aim of the present study is to shed some light on the factors affecting Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) in the context of a transition economy such as Romania, in contrast to the existing literature which mostly focuses on developed economies. Specifically, we use survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771054
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Pollution abatement and control expenditure in Romania : a multilevel analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....
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A review of renewable energy supply and energy efficiency technologies
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - 2014
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...
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Severe air pollution and labor productivity
Li, Teng; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2015
We examine day-to-day fluctuations in worker-level output over 15 months for a panel of 98 manufacturing workers at a plant located in an industrial city in Hebei province, north China. Long-term workers earn piece-rate wages, with no base pay or minimum pay, for homogeneous tasks performed over...
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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
The passage of landmark government regulation is often the culmination of evolving social pressure and incremental policy change. During this process, firms may preemptively adjust behavior in anticipation of impending regulation, making it difficult to quantify the overall economic impact of...
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Three new empirical tests of the pollution haven hypothesis when environmental regulation is endogenous
Millimet, Daniel L.; Roy, Jayjit - 2011
The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to two shortcomings. First, the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in environmental regulation are typically ignored due to the lack of a credible, traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315496
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Air pollution and the labor market : evidence from wildfire smoke
Borgschulte, Mark; Molitor, David; Zou, Eric Yongchen - 2022
We study how air pollution impacts the U.S. labor market by analyzing effects of drifting wildfire smoke that can affect populations far from the fires themselves. We link satellite smoke plume with labor market outcomes to estimate that an additional day of smoke exposure reduces quarterly...
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