I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution … induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … among adult women. Impacts on anemic status are driven by the growth of PM2.5 pollution attributable to emissions from coal … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …

Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I …

The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that … compensation to public work employees consistent with the objectives of (i) productive efficiency in agriculture and (ii) welfare …

(agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy … particular generate in two important sectors - transport and agriculture - in two MENA countries, Egypt (transport) and Yemen … indicative estimates of the external costs of energy subsidies, as manifested in congestion and pollution. Our estimates using …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …

in Germany over a nineteen-year period and exploit plausibly exogenous variation in ambient air pollution within counties …